[AstroPy] Heliocentric Velocity Correction

David Berry d.berry at jach.hawaii.edu
Wed Mar 21 10:21:16 EDT 2012


On 21 March 2012 13:49, Kelle Cruz <kellecruz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks so much for the responses to Vivienne's (my student) question about
> heliocentric velocity.
>
> However, none of these packages were very user friendly and we ended up just
> going with IRAF's
> rvcorrect: http://stsdas.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/gethelp.cgi?rvcorrect
>
> I hope the eventual astropy has something more straightforward, or at least
> better documented with examples.

By design, both AST and SLALIB are at the level of infrastructure
libraries rather than user applications.

David



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