The astropy library

2014 Python Lecture. Part VII

The Astropy Project is a community effort to develop a single core package for Astronomy in Python and foster interoperability between Python astronomy packages. More informations here: http://www.astropy.org/

In this lecture we will see some of the facilities of the astorpy library, including:

• Constants and Units
• Data Table (a very useful one!)
• Time and Dates
• Etc...

The lecture is here:

https://github.com/Morisset/Python-lectures-Notebooks/blob/master/Notebooks/Using_astropy.ipynb