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lightkurve

lightkurve

A friendly package for Kepler & TESS time series analysis in Python.
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Monthly downloads
48.4K
Weekly downloads
8.6K
GitHub stars
541

Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.

Package Information

Latest Version
2.6.0
Requires Python
<4.0,>=3.9
Licence
MIT
Last Release
6 months ago
Author
Geert Barentsen
First Release
January 22, 2018
Total Releases
89
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details

The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
61
Adoption
46
Community
90
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
30 days ago
Monthly downloads
48,374
• 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
48,374
Stars
541
Stars per 1k downloads
11.18
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
1,233
Month daily avg
1,612
Momentum
-23.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4.0,>=3.9
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
• Legacy
Supports 3.10 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
182 days ago
Total releases
89
Releases/year
10.2
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
61
Monthly downloads
48,374
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
264.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
55.5
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
30.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
152d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 
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Downloads by OS

Linux 1.3K
Windows 51
macOS 46

Python Versions

3.12
72.1% 1.0K
3.11
9.9% 138
3.13
9.9% 138
3.10
5.8% 81
3.14
2.2% 31

Top Countries

1. US US
1.4K
2. SG SG
58
3. CA CA
53
4. CN CN
23
5. HK HK
13
6. GB GB
12
7. IN IN
12
8. DE DE
9
9. NL NL
9
10. JP JP
7

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Dependencies

17

Used By

57
View all 57 dependents

Repository details

Forks
201
Issues
143
Last Commit
1 month ago
Contributors
61
Open PRs
48
Archived
No

Data and sources

Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Keywords
NASA Kepler TESS Astronomy
Sources and methodology