[AstroPy] plotting FITS/WCS in Python: APLpy, Pywcsgrid2

[Stuart Mumford]

Hi,

There is also the WIP WCSAxes pacakge that sounds like it would be close to
what you are after, http://wcsaxes.readthedocs.org/en/latest/,
https://github.com/astrofrog/wcsaxes

Stuart


On 11 June 2014 23:30, Thøger Emil Rivera-Thorsen <trive at astro.su.se> wrote:

> The Kapteyn package also has some quite nifty looking plotting
> capabilities (built on matplotlib). Have not actually used it though.
>
>
> http://www.astro.rug.nl/software/kapteyn/maputilstutorial.html#image-objects
>
>
>
> On Wed 11 Jun 2014 11:50:13 PM CEST, John ZuHone wrote:
> > The development version (v. 3.0, which is due for release within the
> > next month or so) of yt (http://yt-project.org) supports FITS images:
> >
> > http://yt-project.org/docs/dev-3.0/examining/loading_data.html#fits-data
> >
> > These IPython notebooks show how to do plotting, which makes use of
> > the (also in development) wcsaxes (http://wcsaxes.readthedocs.org)
> > library for overplotting coordinates:
> >
> >
> http://yt-project.org/docs/dev-3.0/cookbook/fits_radio_cubes.html#radio-cubes
> >
> http://yt-project.org/docs/dev-3.0/cookbook/fits_xray_images.html#xray-fits
> >
> > On Jun 11, 2014, at 5:45 PM, Tim Jenness <tim.jenness at gmail.com
> > <mailto:tim.jenness at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >> pyast also plots WCS grids and can use matplotlib (but the plotting
> >> backend is pluggable so you can put your own in as well).
> >>
> >> --
> >> Tim Jenness
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Leo Singer <lsinger at caltech.edu
> >> <mailto:lsinger at caltech.edu>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     Hi,
> >>
> >>     What are the current options for generating plots in Python from
> >>     FITS/WCS data? I know of at least two Matplotlib-based projects:
> >>
> >>     APLpy, http://aplpy.github.io <http://aplpy.github.io/>
> >>     Pywcsgrid2, http://leejjoon.github.io/pywcsgrid2/
> >>
> >>     Both generate very nice looking output. APLpy is under active
> >>     development, but Pywcsgrid2 hasn't seen new patches in about a year.
> >>
> >>     These two projects have rather different designs. APLpy provides
> >>     high-level operations built out of Matplotlib calls. On the other
> >>     hand, Pywcsgrid2 is an Axes subclass that lets you use any
> >>     Matplotlib plotting command, but in world or pixel coordinates.
> >>
> >>     I see the advantages of both approaches. The latter works better
> >>     for me, because I often find that my plots involve delving into
> >>     what I consider relatively esoteric Matplotlib techniques, such
> >>     as insets, z-order, and annotation styles. For me, Pywcsgrid2
> >>     works well because in almost every respect I am dealing with an
> >>     ordinary Matplotlib figure.
> >>
> >>     Pywcsgrid2 needs some patches to work with the latest version of
> >>     Astropy. I am working on getting them upstream, but I am
> >>     considering forking the project if it is not being maintained. It
> >>     looks like APLpy and Astropy have many of the same committers, so
> >>     I thought I would ask here: would there be any interest in
> >>     incorporating a Pywcsgrid2-like axes subclass into APLpy, to
> >>     support either paradigm?
> >>
> >>     Are there other Python-based astronomical plotting projects
> >>     should I be aware of?
> >>
> >>     Leo
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