Welcome to Astropy’s Documentation!¶
Astropy is a community-driven package intended to contain much of the core functionality and some common tools needed for performing astronomy and astrophysics with Python.
User Documentation¶
What’s New in Astropy 0.2¶
- Overview
- Installation
- Getting Started with Astropy
- N-dimensional datasets (astropy.nddata)
- Units (astropy.units)
- Time and Dates (astropy.time)
- Astronomical Coordinate Systems (astropy.coordinates)
- Data Tables (astropy.table)
- Cosmological Calculations (astropy.cosmology)
- FITS File handling (astropy.io.fits)
- ASCII Tables (astropy.io.ascii)
- VOTable XML handling (astropy.io.votable)
- Miscellaneous Input/Output (astropy.io.misc)
- World Coordinate System (astropy.wcs)
- Astrostatistics Tools (astropy.stats)
- Astropy Core Package Utilities (astropy.utils)
- Configuration system (astropy.config)
- Logging system
- Current status of sub-packages
- Major Release History
- License and Credits
Getting help¶
If you want to get help or discuss issues with other Astropy users, you can sign up for the astropy mailing list. Alternatively, the astropy-dev list is where you should go to discuss more technical aspects of Astropy with the developers.
Reporting issues¶
If you have come across something that you believe is a bug, please open a ticket in the Astropy issue tracker, and we will look into it promptly.
Please try to include an example that demonstrates the issue and will allow the developers to reproduce and fix the problem. If you are seeing a crash then frequently it will help to include the full Python stack trace as well as information about your operating system (e.g. MacOSX version or Linux version).
Developer Documentation¶
The developer documentation contains instructions for how to contribute to Astropy or affiliated packages, as well as coding, documentation, and testing guidelines.