planetmapper 1.8.2

PlanetMapper: A Python module for visualising, navigating and mapping Solar System observations

PlanetMapper is an open source Python module for visualising, navigating and mapping Solar System observations.

Documentation

For full documentation and API reference, visit planetmapper.readthedocs.io

Installation

pip install planetmapper --upgrade

Requires Python 3.10+

Citing PlanetMapper

If you use PlanetMapper in your research, please cite the following paper:

King et al., (2023). PlanetMapper: A Python package for visualising, navigating and mapping Solar System observations. Journal of Open Source Software, 8(90), 5728, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.05728

Citation BibTeX entry

@article{king_2023_planetmapper,
  author  = {King, Oliver R. T. and Fletcher, Leigh N.},
  doi     = {10.21105/joss.05728},
  journal = {Journal of Open Source Software},
  month   = oct,
  number  = {90},
  pages   = {5728},
  title   = {{PlanetMapper: A Python package for visualising, navigating and mapping Solar System observations}},
  url     = {https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.05728},
  volume  = {8},
  year    = {2023}
}

Each PlanetMapper version is also archived on Zenodo at doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7963121.

Key features

Fit and map astronomical observations using a full featured user interface

Easily visualise solar system observations with just a few lines of code

body = planetmapper.Body('saturn', '2020-01-01')
body.plot_wireframe_radec()
plt.show()

Convert coordinates, generate backplanes and project maps of telescope observations

Contributing

If you spot a bug, have a suggestion, or want contribute code to PlanetMapper, check out the contributing guidelines!