From roban at astro.columbia.edu  Mon Aug 17 10:32:25 2009
From: roban at astro.columbia.edu (Roban Hultman Kramer)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:32:25 -0400
Subject: [AstroPy] [SciPy-User] SciPy2009 BoF Wiki Page
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Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it to the SciPy conference, but
apropos of the Astronomy BoF session, I thought some people might be
interested in a project I hope to start.

I've just released a package of some simple cosmological routines in the
hope that it will form the basis of a community-maintained library:

http://roban.github.com/CosmoloPy/

There are some examples and tests in the git tree (or tar.gz, or zip
archive) that should get you started if you have any interest in using or
contributing to the project. Join the discussion group at

http://groups.google.com/group/cosmolopy-devel

Thanks!

-Roban
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From sebas0 at gmail.com  Mon Aug 17 14:11:16 2009
From: sebas0 at gmail.com (Sebastian)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:11:16 -0300
Subject: [AstroPy] AstroPy Digest, Vol 36, Issue 2
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It would be great if Michael Blanton's K-correct code could be
incorporated into the python Cosmo Calc projects:
Taro Sato is working on a python port.:
http://nomo17k.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/kcorrect-kcorrect-python-port-project/

Anyone else working willing to help?
- Sebas


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> Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it to the SciPy conference, but
> apropos of the Astronomy BoF session, I thought some people might be
> interested in a project I hope to start.
>
> I've just released a package of some simple cosmological routines in the
> hope that it will form the basis of a community-maintained library:
>
> http://roban.github.com/CosmoloPy/
>
> There are some examples and tests in the git tree (or tar.gz, or zip
> archive) that should get you started if you have any interest in using or
> contributing to the project. Join the discussion group at
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> http://groups.google.com/group/cosmolopy-devel
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> Thanks!
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From lee.j.joon at gmail.com  Mon Aug 17 19:40:18 2009
From: lee.j.joon at gmail.com (Jae-Joon Lee)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:40:18 -0400
Subject: [AstroPy] pywcsgrid2 : matplotlib with astronomical fits images
Message-ID: <6e8d907b0908171640p46e9ed9cu8a22c1b388b34f95@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

pywcsgrid2 is my personal project to display astronomical fits images
using matplotlib.

While there are other tools, my approach is to extend the capability
of the matplolib, rather than building something new on top of it.
pywcsgrid2 provides a custom Axes class (derived from the matplotlib's
original Axes) whose main functionality improvement is to draw ticks,
ticklabels, and grids in an appropriate sky coordinate.


Requirement
----------------

* Matplotlib 0.99 version (http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/)

* kapteyn package (http://www.astro.rug.nl/software/kapteyn/) or pywcs
(https://www.stsci.edu/trac/ssb/astrolib, svn version is required)

* pyfits

And it is only supported in linux and mac os X (although pywcsgrid2
itself is written in pure python).


URLs
------

Home page : http://leejjoon.github.com/pywcsgrid2/

Overview doc. : http://leejjoon.github.com/pywcsgrid2/users/overview.html

Download : http://github.com/leejjoon/pywcsgrid2/downloads

github : http://github.com/leejjoon/pywcsgrid2

Unfortunately, the code is documented rather sparsely (with poor
english), but I hope the above  overview gives enough idea on how to
start.

pywcsgrid2 is still in development, and there will be bug fixes and
improvements. While a downloadable tar file is available, installing
from the git repository is recommended if you're familiar with it.

For questions, bug reports or feature suggestions, please email me or
use the issue tracker in the github.

Regards,

-JJ


From wkerzendorf at googlemail.com  Sun Aug 23 15:59:52 2009
From: wkerzendorf at googlemail.com (Wolfgang Kerzendorf)
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:59:52 -0700
Subject: [AstroPy] Sampy and ds9
Message-ID: <96A1B8A4-D4F9-41B7-B656-1824217A493D@gmail.com>

Hello,

I have just installed Sampy and was excited about letting it talk to  
ds9. Unfortunatley I tried to run a SAMPY hub and when I tried to  
connect with DS9 it gave an internal error. I then ran ds9 and Aladin,  
so I guess one of them supplies the hub. I tried to connect to the hub  
but ds9 doesnt see the client. Has anyone gotten sampy talking to ds9?  
I hope this is the right mailinglist for this
cheers
      Wolfgang


From rwagner at physics.ucsd.edu  Sun Aug 23 20:29:42 2009
From: rwagner at physics.ucsd.edu (Rick Wagner)
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:29:42 -0700
Subject: [AstroPy] Sampy and ds9
In-Reply-To: <96A1B8A4-D4F9-41B7-B656-1824217A493D@gmail.com>
References: <96A1B8A4-D4F9-41B7-B656-1824217A493D@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <5175A0B0-B748-4357-8D9C-052026D53EC9@physics.ucsd.edu>

Hi Wolfgang,

> I have just installed Sampy and was excited about letting it talk to
> ds9. Unfortunatley I tried to run a SAMPY hub and when I tried to
> connect with DS9 it gave an internal error. I then ran ds9 and Aladin,
> so I guess one of them supplies the hub. I tried to connect to the hub
> but ds9 doesnt see the client. Has anyone gotten sampy talking to ds9?
> I hope this is the right mailinglist for this
> cheers
>       Wolfgang

I'm a little familiar with SAMP-enabled applications, and I'll try to  
help if I can. To begin, I believe Aladin does provide both a client  
and hub interface. If you want to test ds9 and Aladin as clients  
talking to a separate hub, you should try running a standalone hub  
such as JSAMP [1], or Perl SAMP [2]. Depending on how this works out,  
you'll know whether to contact the SAMPy developers (Luigi Paioro),  
or the ds9 developers (Bill Joye). For reference, you can find links  
to several SAMP-enabled applications on the IVOA wiki [3], including  
the what version of the application supports SAMP.

(I don't know how many others on the AstroPy mailing list are using  
SAMP hubs and applications, so I'm cross-posting this to the SAMP  
standard mailing list. It's not really the place for user support,  
but hopefully you'll hear from one of the ds9 or SAMP developers.)

--Rick

[1] http://software.astrogrid.org/doc/p/jsamp/1.0/
[2] http://www.babilim.co.uk/software/
[3] http://www.ivoa.net/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/SampSoftware

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From astropython at gmail.com  Tue Aug 25 08:09:28 2009
From: astropython at gmail.com (Astronomical Python)
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:09:28 -0400
Subject: [AstroPy] APLpy 0.9.4 Release
Message-ID: <f73d0e0c0908250509t3dc1158awda6d615e4d83e7f0@mail.gmail.com>

We are pleased to announce the release of APLpy 0.9.4, which includes
bug fixes, improvements, and new features.

APLpy is a python module that makes it easy to interactively produce
publication-quality plots of astronomical images in FITS format. More
details are available at http://aplpy.sourceforge.net/

The main change with this release is that APLpy now requires
matplotlib 0.99. More information on the changes in this version is
available in the release notes available from the APLpy homepage.

>From the front page you can sign up to the mailing list and/or the
Twitter feed to be kept up-to-date on future releases.

Cheers,

Eli Bressert and Thomas Robitaille


From wkerzendorf at googlemail.com  Wed Aug 26 06:22:43 2009
From: wkerzendorf at googlemail.com (Wolfgang Kerzendorf)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:22:43 +0200
Subject: [AstroPy] Sampy and ds9
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.00.0908251239440.9730@andromeda.star.bris.ac.uk>
References: <96A1B8A4-D4F9-41B7-B656-1824217A493D@gmail.com>
	<5175A0B0-B748-4357-8D9C-052026D53EC9@physics.ucsd.edu>
	<alpine.LRH.2.00.0908251239440.9730@andromeda.star.bris.ac.uk>
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Hi Mark,

First of all. Thanks for the help.

  It seems I can connect to hub opened by Aladin (even though I can't  
seem to see the python client in ds9's sent-to dialogue). It seems  
SAMP would be really useful to shift data around between topcat, ds9,  
aladin AND python.
Is there a tutorial online that shows simple python scripts to talk to  
ds9 (marking points, sending an image with wcs, controlling other  
features of ds9, ...).
Cheers
     Wolfgang
On 25/08/2009, at 14:10 , Mark Taylor wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Rick Wagner wrote:
>
>> Hi Wolfgang,
>>
>>> I have just installed Sampy and was excited about letting it talk to
>>> ds9. Unfortunatley I tried to run a SAMPY hub and when I tried to
>>> connect with DS9 it gave an internal error. I then ran ds9 and  
>>> Aladin,
>>> so I guess one of them supplies the hub. I tried to connect to the  
>>> hub
>>> but ds9 doesnt see the client. Has anyone gotten sampy talking to  
>>> ds9?
>>> I hope this is the right mailinglist for this
>>> cheers
>>>     Wolfgang
>>
>> I'm a little familiar with SAMP-enabled applications, and I'll try  
>> to help if
>> I can. To begin, I believe Aladin does provide both a client and hub
>> interface. If you want to test ds9 and Aladin as clients talking to  
>> a separate
>> hub, you should try running a standalone hub such as JSAMP [1], or  
>> Perl SAMP
>> [2]. Depending on how this works out, you'll know whether to  
>> contact the SAMPy
>> developers (Luigi Paioro), or the ds9 developers (Bill Joye). For  
>> reference,
>> you can find links to several SAMP-enabled applications on the IVOA  
>> wiki [3],
>> including the what version of the application supports SAMP.
>>
>> (I don't know how many others on the AstroPy mailing list are using  
>> SAMP hubs
>> and applications, so I'm cross-posting this to the SAMP standard  
>> mailing list.
>> It's not really the place for user support, but hopefully you'll  
>> hear from one
>> of the ds9 or SAMP developers.)
>
> Wolfgang,
>
> sorry this isn't working smoothly.  I believe that the ds9 and SAMPy
> people are talking to each other, so it ought to be OK;
> but having said that, if I try using the latest 5.7 beta version
> of ds9 and the public 1.11.0 release of SAMPy, it doesn't work
> for me (ds9 reports "Malformed URL" and fails to connect).
>
> I can hack it so that it works: after starting the SAMPy hub,
> hand-edit the ~/.samp file and add a trailing "/" to the line
> that starts "samp.hub.xmlrcp.url=", before starting ds9.
> This obviously isn't ideal; it shouldn't be necessary, and I
> think it's a ds9 bug which hopefully the author will address soon.
>
> As Rick says, in the mean time you could use a different hub,
> e.g. the JSAMP one.  You would still be able to use the SAMPy
> clients in this case, i.e. use python scripting to control ds9
> or other applications.  Feel free to ask on this list (or to me
> direct) if you have any further questions.
>
> Mark
>
> PS:  Rick, thanks for bouncing this to apps-samp - I think it's OK
>     to use it for user support issues which are, or look like they
>     may be, related to SAMP infrastructure issues.
>
> --
> Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University,  
> UK
> m.b.taylor at bris.ac.uk +44-117-928-8776 http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/ 
> ~mbt/