Astropy Core Package Documentation¶
Welcome to the astropy documentation! astropy is a community-driven package intended to contain much of the core functionality and some common tools needed for performing astronomy and astrophysics with Python.
User Documentation¶
What’s New in Astropy 0.3?¶
Astropy at a glance
Core data structures and transformations
Connecting up: Files and I/O
Astronomy computations and utilities
Nuts and bolts of Astropy
Astropy project details
Getting help¶
If you want to get help or discuss issues with other Astropy users, you can sign up for the astropy mailing list. Alternatively, the astropy-dev mailing list is where you should go to discuss more technical aspects of Astropy with the developers.
Reporting issues¶
If you have come across something that you believe is a bug, please open a ticket in the Astropy issue tracker, and we will look into it promptly.
Please try to include an example that demonstrates the issue and will allow the developers to reproduce and fix the problem. If you are seeing a crash then frequently it will help to include the full Python stack trace as well as information about your operating system (e.g. MacOSX version or Linux version).
Developer Documentation¶
The developer documentation contains instructions for how to contribute to Astropy or affiliated packages, as well as coding, documentation, and testing guidelines. For the guiding vision of this process and the project as a whole, see Vision for a Common Astronomy Python Package.