PyAstronomy 0.8.0

A collection of astronomy-related routines in Python

What is PyAstronomy?

PyAstronomy is a collection of astronomy-related algorithms implemented in Python.

The available functionality is arranged in a number of subpackages.

funcFit and the modelSuite

A convenient fitting package providing support for minimization and MCMC sampling along with a number of ready-to-use models.

AstroLib

A collection of small-scale routines including a number of ports from IDL’s astrolib.

Timing

Algorithms for timing analysis such as the Lomb-Scargle and the Generalized Lomb-Scargle periodogram.

pyaGUI

A collection of GUI tools for interactive work.

Constants

Easy access to some common constants.

Complete documentation and further information

View documantation of latest release here:

http://www.hs.uni-hamburg.de/DE/Ins/Per/Czesla/PyA/PyA/index.html

or the latest development documentation on “Read the Docs”:

https://pyastronomy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

To get your hands on the latest state, visit PyAstronomy on github:

https://github.com/sczesla/PyAstronomy