Top 23 Python Astronomy Projects

• astropy

  26 4,210 9.9 Python

  Astronomy and astrophysics core library

  

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Astropy [0] lives at the heart of most work. It has a Python interface, often backed by Fortran and C++ extension modules. If you use Astropy, you're indirectly using libraries like ERFA [6] and cfitsio [7] which are in C/Fortran.

I personally end up doing a lot of work that uses the HEALPix sky tesselation, so I use healpy [2] as well.

Openorb is perhaps a good example of a pure-Fortran package that I use quite. frequently for orbit propagation [3].

In C, there's Rebound [4] (for N-body simulations) and ASSIST [5] (which extends Rebound to use JPL's pre-calculated positions of major perturbers, and expands the force model to account for general relativity).

There are many more, these are just ones that come to mind from frequent usage in the last few months.

[0] https://www.astropy.org/

• apod-api

  6 766 1.9 Python

  Astronomy Picture of the Day API service

  

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• asdf

  4 504 9.5 Python

  ASDF (Advanced Scientific Data Format) is a next generation interchange format for scientific data (by asdf-format)

  

• termtrack

  1 481 0.0 Python

  Track satellites in your terminal

• pycbc

  1 294 9.3 Python

  Core package to analyze gravitational-wave data, find signals, and study their parameters. This package was used in the first direct detection of gravitational waves (GW150914), and is used in the ongoing analysis of LIGO/Virgo data.

  

• GalSim

  1 211 9.2 Python

  The modular galaxy image simulation toolkit. Documentation:

  

• indi-allsky

  3 178 9.9 Python

  Software to manage a Linux-based All Sky Camera.

Project mention: Roll Your Own All-Sky, Raspberry Pi Camera | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-12

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• stingray

  1 163 9.8 Python

  Anything can happen in the next half hour (including spectral timing made easy)!

  

• PyAutoLens

  1 157 9.6 Python

  PyAutoLens: Open Source Strong Gravitational Lensing

• Virgo

  6 134 0.0 Python

  📡 Virgo: A Versatile Spectrometer for Radio Astronomy (by 0xCoto)

• OpenNGC

  1 91 5.3 Python

  A license friendly NGC/IC objects database

• OACAPI

  2 90 3.4 Python

  Open Astronomy Catalog API

  

• astronify

  1 67 0.0 Python

  Astronomical data sonification.

  

• ha_skyfield

  1 57 0.0 Python

  See the apparent positions of the Sun, Moon, and planets in this home assistant custom component

• Luminet

  1 55 0.0 Python

  This repo provides material for recreating the famous paper by Jean-Pierre Luminet (1979), simulating the first image of a Schwarzschild black hole.

• landsat8image

  1 45 0.0 Python

  A simple python script that, given a location and a date, uses the Nasa Earth API to show a photo taken by the Landsat 8 satellite. The script must be executed on the command-line.

• PyAztro

  0 43 0.0 Python

  Python Wrapper for aztro - The Astrology API | Get Daily Horoscope 💫

• H-line-software

  15 35 0.0 Python

  Software for receiving the hydrogen line at 1420.4MHz with an RTL-SDR dongle

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I observed the "H-Line", https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_line

Made a GIF of the transit of the milky way using this software on a raspberry pi with some SDR/RF equipment. https://github.com/byggemandboesen/H-line-software

Unfortunately I only have some images on my phone right now, a git page is on my todo.

• thor

  1 33 9.1 Python

  Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery (by moeyensj)

• rpn

  4 22 6.2 Python

  RPN command-line calculator

• TrueColorTools

  2 19 9.5 Python

  GUI application for calculating human-visible colors of celestial bodies from their photometry data

• frbgui

  1 18 6.6 Python

  A GUI for measuring properties of Fast Radio Bursts

• curvit

  1 15 6.4 Python

  Create light curves from UVIT data.

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