This package consists of Python replacements for functions that are part of the IDL built-in library or part of astronomical IDL libraries. The emphasis is on reproducing results of the astronomical library functions. Only the bare minimum of IDL built-in functions are implemented to support this.

Ginga is a toolkit designed for building viewers for scientific image data in Python, visualizing 2D pixel data in numpy arrays. It can view astronomical data such as contained in files based on the FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) file format. It is written and is maintained by software engineers at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), and other contributing entities.

The Ginga toolkit centers around an image display object which supports zooming and panning, color and intensity mapping, a choice of several automatic cut levels algorithms and canvases for plotting scalable geometric forms. In addition to this widget, a general purpose "reference" FITS viewer is provided, based on a plugin framework. A fairly complete set of standard plugins are provided for features that we expect from a modern FITS viewer: panning and zooming windows, star catalog access, cuts, star pick/FWHM, thumbnails, etc.

pyregion is a python module to parse ds9 region files. It also supports ciao region files. Features:

• ds9 and ciao region files.

• (physical, WCS) coordinate conversion to the image coordinate.

• convert regions to matplotlib patches.

• convert regions to spatial filter (i.e., generate mask images)

specutils is a Python package for representing, loading, manipulating,and analyzing astronomical spectroscopic data. The generic data containers and accompanying modules provide a toolbox that the astronomical community can use to build more domain-specific packages. For more details about the underlying principles, see APE13.

H5plot is a small GUI to view the solutions in an H5parm interactively. It is a spiritual successor to ParmDBplot for quickly reviewing gain solutions generated by NDPPP.

ZodiPy is an package for simulating zodiacal light in intensity for arbitrary solar system observers.

This package provides schema definitions for the Data Formats For Gamma-Ray Astronomy.

This package provides a similar in functionality to the astropy.coordinates module, but with more of an emphasis on efficiency. Some functions are more than 100 times faster than the corresponding functionality in astropy. On the other hand, the API is somewhat more restrictive than the API used by astropy, so the appropriate module to use will depend on your needs.

STWCS provides support for WCS distortion models and coordinate transformation for the imaging instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope).

This package provides a Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Science Data Processor (SDP) function library for radio astronomy.

This package implements a functionality to match sky on image mosaic.

PHD2 is the enhanced,second generation version of the PHD guiding software from Stark Labs.

This package provides a librari for spherical harmonic transforms (SHTs), which evolved from the libpsht library, addressing several of its shortcomings, such as adding MPI support for distributed memory systems and SHTs of fields with arbitrary spin, but also supporting new developments in CPU instruction sets like the Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) or fused multiply-accumulate (FMA) instructions. The library is implemented in portable C99 and provides an interface that can be easily accessed from other programming languages such as C++, Fortran, Python etc. Generally, libsharp's performance is at least on par with that of its predecessor; however, significant improvements were made to the algorithms for scalar SHTs, which are roughly twice as fast when using the same CPU capabilities.

Supporting paper is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.4945

The concept of the pvextractor package is simple - given a path defined in sky coordinates, and a spectral cube, extract a slice of the cube along that path, and along the spectral axis, producing a position-velocity or position-frequency slice.

Sunwait calculates sunrise or sunset times with civil, nautical, astronomical and custom twilights. The sun's position is calculated using time, and position - latitude and longitude should be specified on the command line.

Features:

• calculates sunrise and sunset for given coordinates

• can wait for sunrise/sunset, or return DAY or NIGHT codes

• works with Windows Task Scheduler (or cron)

• supports custom twilight angles

• used to automate domestic lighting with Arduino transmitter and radio controlled sockets

POPPY is a Python package that simulates physical optical propagation including diffraction. It implements a flexible framework for modeling Fraunhofer and Fresnel diffraction and point spread function formation, particularly in the context of astronomical telescopes.

POPPY was developed as part of a simulation package for the James Webb Space Telescope, but is more broadly applicable to many kinds of imaging simulations. It is not, however, a substitute for high fidelity optical design software such as Zemax or Code V, but rather is intended as a lightweight alternative for cases for which diffractive rather than geometric optics is the topic of interest, and which require portability between platforms or ease of scripting.

Stackistry implements the lucky imaging principle of astronomical imaging: creating a high-quality still image out of a series of many (possibly thousands) low quality ones (blurred, deformed, noisy). The resulting image stack typically requires post-processing, including sharpening (e.g. via deconvolution). Such post-processing is not performed by Stackistry.

The ccdproc package provides many of the necessary tools for processing of CCD images built on a framework to provide error propagation and bad pixel tracking throughout the reduction process.

spacetrack is a python module for Space-Track which promotes space flight safety, protection of the space environment and the peaceful use of space worldwide by sharing space situational awareness services and information with international satellite owners/operators, academia and other entities.

healpy is a Python package to handle pixelated data on the sphere. It is based on the Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization (HEALPix) scheme and builds with the HEALPix C++ library.

European Southern Observatory Data Processing System EDPS is a system to automatically organise data from ESO instruments for pipeline processing and running the pipeline on these data. It is used for quality control at ESO. The current public release is a beta version without a GUI. A GUI is being developed and the system is meant to eventually replace the older EsoReflex environment.

This package provides a wide variety of utilities, focused primarily on numerical python, statistics, and file input/output. Includes specialized tools for astronomers.

PlasmaPy is Python package for plasma research and education. PlasmaPy intends to be for plasma science what Astropy is for astronomy — a collection of functionality commonly needed by plasma scientists and researchers globally, running within and leveraging the open source scientific Python ecosystem.

This package provides an Updated and improved version of the Sparse Lens Inversion Technique, developed within the framework of lens modelling software lenstronomy.