Resources
Following is a list of Python resources for astronomers. These resources include simple modules, larger packages, full analysis environments, useful documents, and web sites.| Title | Description | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| alipy | Convenience script(s) around pyraf/s-extractor to align a stack of dithered FITS images. | astrometry pyraf FITS script |
| APLpy | Create publication-quality plots of astronomical imaging data | plotting images FITS |
| asciitable | Extensible ASCII table reader | tables astrolib |
| astLib | Collection of astronomy-related routines | plotting coordinates statistics |
| AstroAsciiData | AstroAsciiData is a module to handle ASCII tables | tables astrolib |
| AstroLib | Astrolib is a software repository for centralizing astronomy community contributed code for Python. | astrolib repository |
| AstroPy | mailing list for astronomers using python | news scipy questions |
| astropysics | Astrophysics utilities for python | images spectra tables photometry packages astrometry |
| ATpy | Manipulate tables of Astronomical data | FITS votable IPAC SQL tables |
| CASA | Reduction and analysis of radio astronomical data | radio |
| ChiantiPy | Interface to the CHIANTI atomic database for astrophysical spectroscopy | spectra database modeling |
| coords | Manage astronomical coordinate systems | astrolib coordinates |
| cosmocalc | Calculate useful values for a given cosmology | cosmology |
| CosmoloPy | a cosmology package for Python | cosmology |
| deproject | Deproject 3-d cluster properties from 2-d data | X-ray sherpa cluster |
| emcee | Python ensemble sampling toolkit for MCMC | statistics modeling |
| esutil | Package focused on numerical python, statistics, file i/o with astronomy specific modules. | statistics cosmology coordinates WCS astrometry numpy |
| FortranFile | Read/write fortran unformatted files | fortran |
| HIPE | Herschel Interactive Processing Environment (HIPE) in Jython 2.1 | environment jython gui telescope |
| IDL_Python_switch | IDL to Python Switchers Guide | idl |
| IDLSave | A module to read IDL 'save' files into python | idl scipy |
| Inference | Module collection for statistical inference in the physical sciences. | statistics modeling |
| ipython | Interactive computing environment | environment |
| Kapteyn | Collection of modules and apps for astronomy | WCS coordinates FITS plotting tables matplotlib |
| lineid_plot | Line identification plots with automatic label layout | matplotlib plotting spectra idl |
| mathesaurus | Converting from IDL, Matlab, and R to NumPy | idl numpy matplotlib R |
| Matplotlib | Python 2D plotting library | matplotlib plotting |
| Mayavi | 3D scientific data visualization and plotting | plotting |
| NumPy | Numerical computing package | numpy |
| PANDORA | Programs for AstroNomical Data Organization Reduction and Analysis | spectra SEDs cosmology fitting |
| Primer on Python for astronomy | A collection of python resources for astronomy | resources environment packages |
| PyAST | Starlink AST wrapper for Python | WCS coordinates plotting |
| pyAstroLib | Suite of modules built with a goal of converting the NASA IDL Astronomy Library into Python | packages collection idl |
| pyds9 | A Python interface to communicate with DS9 | FITS images ds9 |
| PyEphem | Scientific-grade astronomical computations | astrometry coordinates |
| PyFITS | PyFITS provides an interface to | FITS images tables |
| pyflation | Calculate cosmological perturbations during inflation | cosmology |
| pyIDL | Interact with IDL from python | idl |
| PyMC | Markov chain Monte Carlo in Python | statistics |
| PyRAF | Run IRAF commands inside a python environment | IRAF environment |
| pyregion | Parse ds9 and CIAO region files | matplotlib WCS astrometry coordinates images plotting |
| pysofa | Standards of Fundamental Astronomy interface | astrometry coordinates datetime timing time WCS |
| pysynphot | Replacement for the IRAF synphot package | astrolib photometry |
| python4astronomers | Practical Python for Astronomers | FITS environment fitting idl images image matplotlib modeling numpy plotting scipy sherpa tables tutorial vo votable workshops |
| pytpm | a python interface to Jeff Percival's Telescope Pointing Machine | astrometry datetime |
| PyWCS | World Coordinate System parsing and calculations | WCS FITS astrolib |
| pywcsgrid2 | pywcsgrid2 | WCS images matplotlib astrometry coordinates FITS plotting |
| readcol | Read ASCII tables | tables |
| recfunctions | NumPy structured array utilities | numpy |
| RO | Cross-platform utilities for astronomy with Tk GUI and networking | coordinates ds9 |
| RPy | Interface to the R programming language | statistics |
| SAMPy | A Python implementation of the Simple Application Messaging Protocol | vo |
| SciPy | Science, math, and engineering software | scipy numpy |
| SciPy resources | SciPy resources Wiki | resources |
| sherpa | Flexible modeling and fitting environment | X-ray fitting modeling sherpa |
| Software Carpentry | Software development for scientists and engineers | tutorial workshops |
| sptool | Stellar spectral typing tool | spectra modeling |
| STOMP | C++ Library for fast angular correlations and spatial clustering statistics with python SWIG wrapper | coordinates astrometry tables database statistics answers |
| stsci_python | Data analysis infrastructure | FITS IRAF images plotting tables |
| Transit light curve equations | Mandel & Agol (2002) transit light curve equations | photometry modeling |
| User contributed pyraf scripts | Pyraf Scripts | pyraf |
| vo | Read VO tables into python | vo votable astrolib |
| VOEventLib | A Python Parser for VOEvent XML packets | vo time xml |
| Windows binaries | Windows Binaries for Python Extension Packages | numpy scipy matplotlib packages |
| yt | Analyze and visualize astrophysical simulations | cosmology HPC modeling |
