APLpy Python based astronomical plotting library
Download

APLpy Ranking & Summary

APLpy Tags

astronomy plot plotter astronomy plotter plotter library astronomy library

APLpy Description

Python based astronomical plotting library APLpy (the Astronomical Plotting Library in Python) is a free and open source Python module aimed at producing publication-quality plots of astronomical imaging data in FITS format. The APLpy module uses Matplotlib, which is a powerful and interactive plotting package. APLpy is capable of creating output files in several graphical formats, including EPS, PDF, PS, PNG, and SVG. NOTE: Details on the installation procedure for APLpy can be found HERE. Here are some key features of "APLpy": · Make plots interactively or using scripts · Show grayscale, colorscale, and 3-color RGB images of FITS files · Overlay any number of contour sets · Overlay markers with fully customizable symbols · Overlay coordinate grids · Customize the appearance of labels and ticks · Hide, show, and remove different contour and marker layers · Pan, zoom, and save any view as a full publication-quality plot · Save plots as EPS, PDF, PS, PNG, and SVG Requirements: · Python What's New in This Release: · New Features · methods such as show_contour, show_markers, etc. now return the · contour, marker, etc. object added a method to retrieve the object in a specific layer: · > get_layer() ability to show the beam for the observations: · -> show_beam() · -> hide_beam() · -> set_beam_properties() added the ability to show/hide only the x or y axis/tick labels: · -> show_xtick_labels() · -> hide_xtick_labels() · -> show_ytick_labels() · -> hide_ytick_labels() · -> show_xaxis_labels() · -> hide_xaxis_labels() · -> show_yaxis_labels() · -> hide_yaxis_labels() · convenience functions for world to pixel and pixel to world conversion: · -> world2pixel() · -> pixel2world() · added a convention= argument to FITSFigure() and show_contour(). This is · to be used in cases where the WCS interpretation is ambiguous. For · example, a -CAR projection with CRVAL20 can be interpreted in two · different ways. If an ambiguous case pops up, APLpy will raise an · exception and ask for the convention to be specified. · API changes · set_labels_latex() is now set_system_latex() · Bug fixes · the current position of the cursor in world coordinates is now correctly · shown in interactive mode · fixed an issue which caused RGB FITS cubes to be 64-bit · fixed a bug which meant that the coordinate grid was not updated · immediately during pan and zoom

APLpy Related Software