2011-11-25
Resource: PyAST
Description: Starlink AST wrapper for Python
Homepage URL: dsberry.github.com/starlink/pyast.html
PyAST provides wrappers for the starlink AST library. AST provides a comprehensive range of facilities for attaching world co-ordinate systems to astronomical data, for retrieving and interpreting that information in a variety of formats, including FITS-WCS, and for generating graphical output based on it (annotated coordinate grids, etc). AST provides the WCS facilities for ...
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2011-10-01
Resource: lineid_plot
Description: Line identification plots with automatic label layout
Homepage URL: http://packages.python.org/lineid_plot/
This module has functions for automatically placing labels in a plot in such a way that the labels do not overlap with each other. This is very useful, for example, in creating plots that have labels identifying features in a spectrum.
This Python module is an adaptation of the IDL module lineid_plot.pro ...
2011-05-23
Tutorial: Practical Python for Astronomers
Practical Python for Astronomers is a series of hands-on workshops to explore the Python language and the powerful analysis tools it provides. The emphasis is on using Python to solve real-world problems that astronomers are likely to encounter in research.
The workshops immediately make use of the full suite of plotting, analysis, and file reading tools. Along the way elements of the Python language such as data types ...
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2011-05-23
Resource: python4astronomers
Description: Practical Python for Astronomers
Homepage URL: http://python4astronomers.github.com/
Practical Python for Astronomers is a series of hands-on workshops to explore the Python language and the powerful analysis tools it provides. The emphasis is on using Python to solve real-world problems that astronomers are likely to encounter in research.
The workshops immediately make use of the full suite of plotting, analysis, and file reading tools. Along ...
2010-11-14
Resource: pywcsgrid2
Description: pywcsgrid2
Homepage URL: http://leejjoon.github.com/pywcsgrid2/
Pywcsgrid2 is a python module to be used with matplotlib for displaying astronomical FITS images. It provides a custom Axes class (derived from mpl’s original Axes class) suitable for displaying FITS images. Its main functionality is to draw ticks, ticklabels, and grids in an appropriate sky coordinates.
- Provides a custom Matplotlib Axes class based on mpl_toolkits.axis artist ...
