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lightkurve

lightkurve

A friendly package for Kepler & TESS time series analysis in Python.
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Downloads
Day
1.3K
Week
9.7K
Month
41.6K
Stars
513
Forks
192
Issues
144
Version
2.6.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
60
Adoption
56
Community
90
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
12 days ago
Monthly downloads
41,569
• 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
41,569
Stars
513
Stars per 1k downloads
12.34
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
1,384
Month daily avg
1,386
Momentum
-0.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4.0,>=3.9
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
MIT
• 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
81 days ago
Total releases
89
Releases/year
10.5
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
59
Monthly downloads
41,569
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
91
 
Issue Burden
280.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
58.5
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
30.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
69d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 729
Windows 46
macOS 9

Python Versions

3.12
43.1% 328
3.11
28.5% 217
3.10
10.5% 80
3.14
9.7% 74
3.13
8.1% 62

Top Countries

1. US US
588
2. SG SG
31
3. NL NL
30
4. IN IN
26
5. TW TW
24
6. FR FR
14
7. GB GB
12
8. DE DE
11
9. BE BE
8
10. EE EE
8
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
January 22, 2018
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
2.6.0
Total Releases
89
Contributors
59
Open PRs
46
Archived
No
Author
Geert Barentsen
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
NASA Kepler TESS Astronomy
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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