[AstroPy] how to make a sky plot

Thøger Emil Rivera-Thorsen trive at astro.su.se
Wed Apr 2 11:22:18 EDT 2014


Here is an example gallery with source code of all/sky maps from 
Kapteyn. Looks pretty neat to me.

http://www.astro.rug.nl/software/kapteyn/allsky.html



On Wed 02 Apr 2014 05:06:39 PM CEST, David Berry wrote:
> On 2 April 2014 16:02, Thøger Emil Rivera-Thorsen <trive at astro.su.se> wrote:
>> As far as I remember, the Kapteyn python package has some pretty good
>> functions for doing this exact kind of thing. It uses Matplotlib as a
>> backend.
>
> Pyast also does this, using matplotlib as a backend. See
>
> http://dsberry.github.io/starlink/pyast.html
>
> and particularly the "Display a Graphical Coordinate Grid" section in
> the "Examples" section.
>
> David
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