[AstroPy] all-sky map

Bridgman, William T. William.T.Bridgman at nasa.gov
Tue Apr 5 14:42:36 EDT 2011


Are you looking for the labeling or the reprojection?

These were done with Python

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003700/a003769/index.html
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003700/a003702/index.html

I've used PIL for labeling on images.

Tom
On Apr 5, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Jonathan Slavin wrote:

> To all:
>
> I'm looking for a way to plot an all-sky map of modeled data using a
> Hammer-Aitoff projection.  The way I've done this in IDL is to  
> create a
> uniform x-y grid, translate that l, b using the proper conversion  
> for an
> Aitoff projection and generate the data on that grid.  I then display
> the image and overlay an Aitoff grid (which I also generate).  So the
> image is rectangular and extends beyond the plot edges.  That is fine,
> but then all the labeling, etc. has to be done by hand.  Is there an
> easier way?  Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
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