[AstroPy] Plotting multiple coordinate grids

[Akshat Singhal]

Hi Tom,

I am having a similar problem, I do not require all-sky map,
I want a map of a piece of sky which has both  RA-DEC and ALT_AZ
grids in it, just like stellarium.
See the link below
http://goo.gl/2m5dFW

Thanks
-Akshat

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> Hi,
>
> I am stuck at what _should_ be a simple process: I want to plot a sky
> map with RA-dec as well as alt-az grids. For example, many planetarium
> software will let you print a sky map in which you have multiple sets
> of gridlines plotted. An ability to interact with healpy (or overplot
> healpix grids) would be a bonus.
>
> What would be the way to go? Basemap? A sample code or MWE would be great.
>
> Thanks,
> -- Varun
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> From: Michael Droettboom <mdroe at stsci.edu>
> Subject: Re: [AstroPy] Plotting multiple coordinate grids
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> You may want to have a look at WCSAxes:
>
> http://wcsaxes.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
>
> Mike
>
> On 12/22/2014 12:42 AM, Varun Bhalerao wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am stuck at what _should_ be a simple process: I want to plot a sky
> > map with RA-dec as well as alt-az grids. For example, many planetarium
> > software will let you print a sky map in which you have multiple sets
> > of gridlines plotted. An ability to interact with healpy (or overplot
> > healpix grids) would be a bonus.
> >
> > What would be the way to go? Basemap? A sample code or MWE would be
> great.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -- Varun
> > ______________
> > Varun Bhalerao
> > Office: A 214, IUCAA
> > Ph: +91 20 2560 4214
> > www.iucaa.ernet.in/~varunb
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> Michael Droettboom
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> Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 16:32:27 +0000
> From: Thomas Robitaille <thomas.robitaille at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [AstroPy] Plotting multiple coordinate grids
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> Indeed, and in the latest developer version of Astropy, we have support
> for the AltAz reference frame. Having said that, I'd be interested in
> understanding what kind of projections you would like to use when you
> mention 'all-sky'?
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
>
> Michael Droettboom wrote:
> > You may want to have a look at WCSAxes:
> >
> > http://wcsaxes.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > On 12/22/2014 12:42 AM, Varun Bhalerao wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am stuck at what _should_ be a simple process: I want to plot a sky
> >> map with RA-dec as well as alt-az grids. For example, many planetarium
> >> software will let you print a sky map in which you have multiple sets
> >> of gridlines plotted. An ability to interact with healpy (or overplot
> >> healpix grids) would be a bonus.
> >>
> >> What would be the way to go? Basemap? A sample code or MWE would be
> great.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> -- Varun
> >> ______________
> >> Varun Bhalerao
> >> Office: A 214, IUCAA
> >> Ph: +91 20 2560 4214
> >> www.iucaa.ernet.in/~varunb
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