Welcome to Astropy’s Documentation!¶
Astropy is a community-driven package intended to contain much of the core functionality and some common tools needed for performing astronomy and astrophysics with Python.
User Documentation¶
- Overview
- Installation
- N-dimensional datasets (astropy.nddata)
- Data Tables (astropy.table)
- Cosmological Calculations (astropy.cosmology)
- FITS File handling (astropy.io.fits)
- ASCII Tables (astropy.io.ascii)
- VOTable XML handling (astropy.io.vo)
- World Coordinate System (astropy.wcs)
- Astronomy-Oriented Tools (astropy.tools)
- Developer-Oriented Utilities (astropy.utils)
- Configuration system (astropy.config)
- Logging system
- License and Credits
Developer Documentation¶
The developer documentation contains instructions for how to contribute to Astropy or affiliated packages, as well as coding, documentation, and testing guidelines.