Astronomy Python Packages

astropy

Astronomy and astrophysics core library

pyerfa

Python bindings for ERFA routines

pymeeus

Library of astronomical algorithms in Python

asdf

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

astroquery

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

gwcs

processing pipeline for James Webb Space Telescope imagery and spectroscopy

photutils

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

fitsio

A python package for FITS input/output wrapping cfitsio

sunpy

SunPy - Python for Solar Physics

regions

Astropy package for region handling Maintainers: @larrybradley @keflavich

spherical-geometry

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

mocpy

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

crds

Calibration Reference Data System for HST and JWST.

drizzle

A package for combining dithered images into a single image

tweakwcs

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

yt

Main yt repository

lightkurve

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

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.

galsim

The modular galaxy image simulation toolkit. Documentation:

astroalign

A tool to align astronomical images based on asterism matching

lsst-daf-butler

Data Access abstraction framework for the Rubin Observatory

jwst

processing pipeline for James Webb Space Telescope imagery and spectroscopy

pyastronomy

A collection of astronomy-related routines in Python

autofit

PyAutoFit: Classy Probabilistic Programming