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Astropy
Developer(s)	The Astropy Collaboration
Stable release	0.2.5 / 25 October 2013; 11 years ago
Repository	github.com/astropy/astropy ;
Operating system	Cross-platform [1]
Type	Technical computing
License	BSD-new license
Website	www.astropy.org

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The Astropy ProjectThe Astropy Collaboration (October 2013). "Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy" (PDF). Astronomy & Astrophysics. {{cite journal}}: Check |authorlink= value (help); Cite journal requires |journal= (help); External link in |authorlink= (help) is a community effort to develop a single core package for Astronomy in Python programming language and foster interoperability between Python programming language astronomy packages.

Modules

The following Modules (grouped by functionality) are provided by Astropy :

Core data structures and transformations
Connecting up: Files and I/O
Astronomy computations and utilities
Nuts and bolts of Astropy

Core Functionality

flexible image transport system (FITS) files
Virtual Observatory (VO) tables
common ASCII table formats
unit and physical quantity conversions
physical constants specific to astronomy
celestial coordinate and time transformations
world coordinate system (WCS) support
generalized containers for representing gridded as well as tabular data
framework for cosmological transformations and conversions

Affiliated Packages

A major part of the Astropy project is the concept of “Affiliated Packages”. An affiliated package is an astronomy-related Python package that is not part of the astropy core package, but has requested to be included as part of the Astropy project’s community. These packages are expressing an interest in Astropy’s goals of improving reuse, interoperability, and interface standards for python astronomy and astrophysics packages.

Montage-wrapper
Ginga
APLpy
astroML: tools for machine learning and data mining in Astronomy
Astropysics: library of IDL astronomy routines converted to Python.

A few additional affiliated packages are currently in development, including:

photutils: photometry tools
astroquery: online database querying
specutils: spectroscopic analysis utilities
kcorrect: Python bindings to kcorrect code of Blanton et al. 2007

References

External links

Official website

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+  | authorlink = http://www.astropy.org/
+  | title = Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy
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+A major part of the Astropy project is the concept of “Affiliated Packages”. An affiliated package is an astronomy-related Python package that is not part of the astropy core package, but has requested to be included as part of the Astropy project’s community. These packages are expressing an interest in Astropy’s goals of improving reuse, interoperability, and interface standards for python astronomy and astrophysics packages.
-A major part of the Astropy project{{cite paper
-  | last = The Astropy Collaboration
-  | authorlink = http://www.astropy.org/
-  | title = Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy
-  | publisher = Astronomy & Astrophysics
-  | date =  October 2013
-  | url = http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2013/10/aa22068-13.pdf
-  | format = PDF
-}} is the concept of “Affiliated Packages”. An affiliated package is an astronomy-related Python package that is not part of the astropy core package, but has requested to be included as part of the Astropy project’s community. These packages are expressing an interest in Astropy’s goals of improving reuse, interoperability, and interface standards for python astronomy and astrophysics packages.
 *Montage-wrapper
 *Ginga