It's important for astronomy research to calculate the geodesics of particles ( photon and particles with non-zero rest mass ) in Kerr spacetime. These geodesics not only can be regarded as the approximation of trajectory of accretion matters around black hole, but also as the path of radiation transfer. At the same time it's also the foundation for imaging a object and calculating its spectrum in curved spacetime under theory levels. In this paper as taking the method of Carlson's elliptic integration as a foundation, we developed a Fortran program to calculate the geodesics of photon in Kerr spacetime and discussion of its tests and applications to Astrophysics problems.
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