Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy

Abstract

Astroplan is an observation planning package for astronomers. It is an astropy-affiliated package which began as a Google Summer of Code project. Astroplan facilitates convenient calculation of common observational quantities, like target altitudes and azimuths, airmasses, and rise/set times. Astroplan also computes when targets are observable given various extensible observing constraints, for example: within a range of airmasses or altitudes, or at a given separation from the Moon. Astroplan is taught in the undergraduate programming for astronomy class, and enables observational Pre-MAP projects at the University of Washington. In the near future, we plan to implement scheduling capabilities in astroplan on top of the constraints framework.

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Affiliated Institutions

• Argonne National Laboratory US
• University of Hawaii at Hilo US
• Space Telescope Science Institute US
• Yale University US
• California Institute of Technology US
• Louisiana State University US
• University College London GB
• Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology Surat IN
• University of Toronto CA
• Australian National University AU
• Gemini North Observatory US
• European Southern Observatory DE
• University of Colorado Boulder US
• Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics DE
• Mount Stromlo Observatory AU
• CEA Paris-Saclay FR
• Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics US
• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique FR
• Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian US
• Gemini South Observatory CL
• Deleted Institution
• ETH Zurich CH
• Columbia University US
• The Ohio State University US
• Astrophysique, Instrumentation et Modélisation FR
• New York University US
• Cornell University US
• South African Radio Astronomy Observatory ZA
• Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille FR
• Goddard Space Flight Center US
• Max Planck Institute for Astronomy DE
• Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté FR
• Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives FR
• Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam DE

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