PyAstronomy

What is it?

PyAstronomy is a collection of astronomy-related packages written in Python.

Currently, the following subpackages are available:

funcFit: A convenient fitting package providing support for minimization and MCMC sampling.

modelSuite: A Set of astrophysical models (e.g., transit light-curve modeling), which can be used stand-alone or with funcFit.

AstroLib: A set of useful routines including a number of ports from IDL's astrolib.

Constants: The package provides a number of often-needed constants.

Timing: Provides algorithms for timing analysis such as the Lomb-Scargle and the Generalized Lomb-Scargle periodogram

pyaGUI: A collection of GUI tools for interactive work.

Installation

To install the latest release via pip from PyPI use pip install PyAstronomy[occult] or pip install git+https://github.com/sczesla/PyAstronomy.git#egg=PyAstronomy[occult] to install the current state from github including non-Python dependencies. Remove [occult] to skip these dependencies.

Documentation and further information

View the latest documentation on Read the Docs

Visit the documentation of the latest release: https://pyastronomy.readthedocs.io/en/v_0-25-0/

Licensing

Where not stated otherwise, PyAstronomy is released under the MIT license (see also documentation).