Example gallery¶

This gallery of examples shows a variety of relatively small snippets or examples of tasks that can be done with the Astropy core package. Contributions from the community are encouraged!

Longer-form tutorials (or tutorials for affiliated packages) belong at http://tutorials.astropy.org (and can be submitted at the associated github repository).

astropy.coordinates¶

General examples of the astropy.coordinates subpackage.

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Convert a radial velocity to the Galactic Standard of Rest (GSR)

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Determining and plotting the altitude/azimuth of a celestial object

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Transforming positions and velocities to and from a Galactocentric frame

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Create a new coordinate class (for the Sagittarius stream)

astropy.io¶

General examples of the astropy.io subpackages.

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Create a multi-extension FITS (MEF) file from scratch

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Accessing data stored as a table in a multi-extension FITS (MEF) file

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Read and plot an image from a FITS file

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Edit a FITS header

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Create a very large FITS file from scratch

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Convert a 3-color image (JPG) to separate FITS images

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