2010-09-23
Resource: AstroLib
Description: Astrolib is a software repository for centralizing astronomy community contributed code for Python.
Homepage URL: https://trac6.assembla.com/astrolib
The goal of the AstroLib repository is to become a center of astronomy community contributed code for Python. From the public announcement of AstroLib as a repository for astronomy python software:
"If you have written a module that you believe is useful for others and would like ...
2010-01-14
Resource: asciitable
Description: Extensible ASCII table reader
Homepage URL: http://cxc.harvard.edu/contrib/asciitable/
At the top level asciitable looks like many other ASCII table readers since it provides a default read() function with a long list of parameters to accommodate the many variations possible in commonly encountered ASCII table formats. But unlike other monolithic table reader implementations, asciitable is based on a modular and extensible class structure. Formats ...
2009-11-17
Resource: AstroAsciiData
Description: AstroAsciiData is a module to handle ASCII tables
Homepage URL: http://www.stecf.org/software/PYTHONtools/astroasciidata/
AstroAsciiData is a Python module to handle ASCII tables. Features:
* Imports all reasonably well-formed Ascii tables
* Column-first access
* Easy creation and manipulation of tables, columns, rows and attached comments
* Retains formatting of data values
* Support for SExtractor style headers
* Column sorting
* Interchangeable comment character, column delimiter and null value
* Exports ...
2009-11-17
Resource: pysynphot
Description: Replacement for the IRAF synphot package
Homepage URL: https://trac6.assembla.com/astrolib
pysynphot is a synthetic photometry software package suitable for either library
or interactive use. Intended as a modern-language successor to the
IRAF/STSDAS synphot package, it provides improved algorithms that
address known shortcomings in synphot, and its object-oriented design
is more easily extensible than synphot's task-oriented approach. It will run under PyRAF, and ...
2009-11-17
Resource: coords
Description: Manage astronomical coordinate systems
Homepage URL: https://trac6.assembla.com/astrolib
This package aims to provide much of the IDL "astron"
functionality that pertains to coordinate manipulations in an OO
framework. The target user is a typical astronomer who needs to analyze
data, work with catalogs, prepare observing proposals, and prepare for
observing runs.
coords is part of the Astrolib repository.
