From astropython at gmail.com Tue Oct 12 09:00:53 2010 From: astropython at gmail.com (Astronomical Python) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:00:53 -0400 Subject: [AstroPy] APLpy 0.9.5 Release Message-ID: We are pleased to announce the release of APLpy 0.9.5, which includes many new features, bug fixes, and improvements. 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 This release includes new features such as the ability to show beams, scalebars, colorbars, ds9 region files, and supports slicing of multi- dimensional FITS cubes and smoothing of images/contours. More details on the changes in this version are available in the release notes available from the APLpy homepage. We have created a quick reference guide to give users an overview of all the methods available in APLpy: http://aplpy.sourceforge.net/documentation/quick_reference.html An optional auto-installation script is now available to install APLpy and all dependencies (except matplotlib and numpy). See the following page for more details: http://aplpy.sourceforge.net/install.php We have now created two Google Groups - one for announcements: http://groups.google.com/group/aplpy-announce and one for user discussion: http://groups.google.com/group/aplpy-users The latter will now replace the APLpy forums. Bug reports and feature requests should be submitted to the Sourceforge trackers at: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=254216 Please do not hesitate to let us know if you encounter any problems with this release, Cheers, Thomas Robitaille, Eli Bressert, and Adam Ginsburg