Astronomy Python Packages

astropy

Astronomy and astrophysics core library

pyerfa

Python bindings for ERFA routines

pymeeus

Library of astronomical algorithms in Python

astroquery

Functions and classes to access online data resources. Maintainers: @keflavich and @bsipocz

asdf

ASDF (Advanced Scientific Data Format) is a next generation interchange format for scientific data

sunpy

SunPy - Python for Solar Physics

gwcs

Python library for science observations from the James Webb Space Telescope

photutils

Astropy package for source detection and photometry. Maintainer: @larrybradley

autofit

PyAutoFit: Classy Probabilistic Programming

spherical-geometry

A Python package for handling spherical polygons that represent arbitrary regions of the sky

regions

Astropy package for region handling Maintainers: @larrybradley @keflavich

crds

Calibration Reference Data System for HST and JWST.

drizzle

A package for combining dithered images into a single image

mocpy

Python library to easily create and manipulate MOCs (Multi-Order Coverage maps)

pycbc

Core package to analyze gravitational-wave data, find signals, and study their parameters. This package was used in the first direct detection of gravitational waves (GW150914), and is used in the ongoing analysis of LIGO/Virgo data.

tweakwcs

Algorithms for matching and aligning catalogs and for tweaking the WCS so as to minimize catalog mismatch errors

fitsio

A python package for FITS input/output wrapping cfitsio

galsim

The modular galaxy image simulation toolkit. Documentation:

lightkurve

A friendly package for Kepler & TESS time series analysis in Python.

pyastronomy

A collection of astronomy-related routines in Python

yt

Main yt repository

autolens

PyAutoLens: Open-Source Strong Gravitational Lensing

roman-datamodels

Datamodel support for the roman calibration pipeline

pyastroweatherio

Wrapper for the met.no API designed to work with Home Assistant