Example gallery¶

This gallery of examples shows a variety of relatively small snippets or examples of tasks that can be done with the Astropy core package. Contributions from the community are encouraged!

Longer-form tutorials (or tutorials for affiliated packages) belong at https://learn.astropy.org (and can be submitted at the associated github repository).

astropy.coordinates¶

General examples of the astropy.coordinates subpackage.

Convert a radial velocity to the Galactic Standard of Rest (GSR) — Convert a radial velocity to the Galactic Standard of Rest (GSR)¶

Determining and plotting the altitude/azimuth of a celestial object — Determining and plotting the altitude/azimuth of a celestial object¶

Transforming positions and velocities to and from a Galactocentric frame — Transforming positions and velocities to and from a Galactocentric frame¶

Create a new coordinate class (for the Sagittarius stream) — Create a new coordinate class (for the Sagittarius stream)¶

astropy.io¶

General examples of the astropy.io subpackages.

Create a multi-extension FITS (MEF) file from scratch — Create a multi-extension FITS (MEF) file from scratch¶

Create a very large FITS file from scratch — Create a very large FITS file from scratch¶

Convert a 3-color image (JPG) to separate FITS images — Convert a 3-color image (JPG) to separate FITS images¶

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