PyRank
astropy

astropy

Astronomy and astrophysics core library
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
177.7K
Week
1.3M
Month
4.9M
Stars
5.2K
Forks
2.1K
Issues
1.3K
Version
8.0.0b1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
81
Adoption
90
Community
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
7 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,873,691
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
4,873,691
Stars
5,163
Stars per 1k downloads
1.06
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
• Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
184,331
Month daily avg
162,456
Momentum
+13.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.11
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
BSD-3-Clause
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
6 days ago
Total releases
160
Releases/year
12.0
• Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
622
Monthly downloads
4,873,691
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
80
 
Issue Burden
247.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
29.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 65.3K
Windows 1.6K
macOS 1.6K

Python Versions

3.12
49.8% 30.9K
3.11
23.1% 14.4K
3.13
14.5% 9.0K
3.10
8.5% 5.3K
3.8
4.1% 2.5K

Top Countries

1. US US
57.1K
2. DE DE
4.2K
3. CN CN
2.6K
4. SG SG
2.5K
5. GB GB
1.9K
6. HK HK
1.5K
7. IE IE
841
8. NL NL
696
9. IN IN
497
10. FR FR
446

Dependencies

5
55 optional dependencies

Used By

2301
View all 2301 dependents

GitHub Topics

Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
January 26, 2013
Last Release
6 days ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
8.0.0b1
Total Releases
160
Contributors
622
Open PRs
119
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp27 cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp34 cp35 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39
Keywords
astronomy astrophysics cosmology space science units table wcs samp coordinate fits modeling models fitting ascii
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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