[AstroPy] ANN: Astropy v0.4 released

Gustavo Bragança ga.braganca at gmail.com
Thu Jul 17 15:34:22 EDT 2014


Hi,

That is very good news. Congratulations to all. 


I just want to make a note that I get a 404 when I try to access 
http://www.astropy.org/team.html.

I guess it should lead to the bottom of this page 
(http://www.astropy.org/about.html#acknowledge)

Should I open a issue?

Cheers,

Gustavo

Em quinta-feira, 17 de julho de 2014 15h36min33s UTC+2, Erik Tollerud 
escreveu:
>
> Hello, 
>
> We are very happy to announce the third major public release (v0.4) of 
> the astropy package, a core Python package for Astronomy: 
>
>    http://www.astropy.org 
>
>
> Astropy is a community-driven package intended to contain much of the 
> core functionality and common tools needed for performing astronomy 
> and astrophysics with Python. 
>
> New and improved major functionality in this release includes: 
>
> * A new astropy.vo.samp sub-package adapted from the previously 
> standalone SAMPy package 
> * A re-designed astropy.coordinates sub-package for celestial coordinates 
> * A new ‘fitsheader’ command-line tool that can be used to quickly 
> inspect FITS headers 
> * A new HTML table reader/writer 
> * Improved performance for Quantity objects 
> * A re-designed configuration framework 
>
> In addition, hundreds of smaller improvements and fixes have been 
> made. An overview of the changes is provided at: 
>
>    http://docs.astropy.org/en/latest/whatsnew/0.4.html 
>
>
> Instructions for installing Astropy are provided at the 
> http://www.astropy.org website, and extensive documentation can be 
> found at: 
>
>    http://docs.astropy.org 
>
> In particular, if you use Anaconda, you can update to v0.4 with: 
>
>    conda update astropy 
>
>
> Please report any issues, or request new features via our GitHub 
> repository: 
>
>    https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues 
>
>
> Over 80 developers have contributed code to Astropy so far, and you 
> can find out more about the team behind Astropy here: 
>
>    http://www.astropy.org/team.html 
>
>
> If you use Astropy directly - or as a dependency to another package - 
> for your work, please remember to include the following acknowledgment 
> at the end of papers: 
>
> "This research made use of Astropy, a community-developed core Python 
> package for Astronomy (Astropy Collaboration, 2013)." 
>
> where “(Astropy Collaboration, 2013)” is the Astropy paper which was 
> published last year: 
>
>  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013A%26A...558A..33A 
>
>
> Please feel free to forward this announcement to anyone you think 
> might be interested in this release. 
>
>
> We hope that you enjoy using Astropy as much as we enjoyed developing it! 
>
>
> Thomas Robitaille, Erik Tollerud, and Perry Greenfield 
> on behalf of The Astropy Collaboration 
>
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