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The purpose of this web site is to act as a community knowledge base for performing astronomy research with Python. It provides lists of useful resources, a forum for general discussion, advice, or relevant news items, collecting users' code snippets or scripts, and longer tutorials on specific topics. The topics within these pages are presented in a list view with the ability to sort by date or topic. A traditional "blog" view of the most recently posted topics is visible from the site Home page.

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RECENT ACTIVITY

2013-05-23

Blog: Astropy 0.2.2 released

From the Astropy Collaboration:

We are happy to announce the release of v0.2.2 of the Astropy package, a core Python package for Astronomy.

v0.2.2 is a bug fix release, with 30+ bugfixes and performance enhancements.  The full list of  changes can be found at http://docs.astropy.org/en/v0.2.2/changelog.html#id1


Instructions for installing Astropy are provided at the http ...

Posted by aldcroft
2013-04-10

Resource: sersic

Description: Exact deprojection of Sersic surface brightness profiles
Homepage URL: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sersic/

This is a well-tested implementation of the exact deprojection of the Sérsic surface
brightness profiles as described in:

"Analytical expressions for the deprojected Sérsic model"
Baes and Gentile, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 525:A136 (2011)
http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.4713

Posted by aldcroft
2013-03-04

Resource: PySpecKit

Description: Spectroscopic analysis toolkit for astronomy
Homepage URL: http://pyspeckit.bitbucket.org/

This is a code framework designed to allow for analysis of spectroscopic data from a wide variety of astronomical instruments.

Key features:

  • Baseline & continuum fitting
  • Model fitting
  • EQW, column, and other measurements
  • Spectroscopic cooordinate transformations
  • Extensible design

Posted by aldcroft
2013-02-28

Blog: Astronomy & Astrophysics Mini-Symposium at SciPy2013

We are planning to have an Astronomy & Astrophysics Mini-Symposium at the SciPy2013 conference in Austin, TX in June 2013.  The use of Python for astronomy research is growing rapidly, and we have seen the emergence of large and well-organized community efforts to develop analysis packages for astronomy.  

I'm excited to have the opportunity to organize and chair this mini-symposium.  This is timely moment for the astronomy Python ...

Posted by aldcroft
2013-02-27

Blog: Good videos: matplotlib and more

Astropython reader Aycha shared the following:

This matplotlib tutorial was useful to me and thought I should share.  Other video lectures from that meeting might be of interest for astronomers as well:

http://vimeo.com/53057312
http://vimeo.com/continuumanalytics/videos

Posted by aldcroft

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