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2010-11-20
Blog: Housecleaning at AstroPython
Based on user feedback I've made a few long-overdue tweaks to the astropython.org web site. Changes include:
- Darker text and header colors
- Included the cool logo that Eli Bressert made
- The contributor user name is shown in blog entries and RSS feeds (no more Astropython Contributor!)
- Put some more explanatory text on the front page and each section page
- Much more detail on how to contribute ...
2010-03-04
Blog: Testing a Jython Table Toolkit: JySTILTS
One pair of very powerful astronomical table manipulation and plotting tools are the TOPCAT graphical and STILTS command line applications. These originated in the Starlink project and Mark Taylor continues to develop and innovate them with a recent example being an significant expansion of their capabilities to access online (virtual) astronomical resources.
Mark has developed a Jython interface to STILTS, which he has issued as a pre-release for ...
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2010-03-04
Blog: CPython, Jython, IronPython and the like
While many astronomical applications are wed to C Python via their use of numpy for array manipulation, there are other new and interesting tools that have been built on other Python implementations, which share many core capabilities.
One example application is the Herschel Interactive Processing Environment (HIPE) that is based on Jython (2.1). We'll be posting some Jython based resources, presently.
2010-01-14
Resource: AstroPy
Description: mailing list for astronomers using python
Homepage URL: http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/astropy
The intended audience for this mailing list is:
- Astronomers interested development of an interactive data analysis environment in Python.
- Amateur astronomers interested in astronomical analysis tools that can run on computer systems within their budget.
- Students and teachers interested in a free and easy-to-use programming language for teaching.
To see the collection ...
2009-10-15
Blog: Welcome to the new AstroPython
Welcome to the new GAE/bloog incarnation of AstroPython. I've put in some content for each of the categories, particularly in resources. Hopefully this is getting on the track toward being able to fill in a bunch more and go live. I discovered that cut-n-paste from web pages preserves formatting and images (!) so it is straightforward to add content from the web.
