https://github.com/astrocatalogs/astrocats

Astrocats package for constructing astronomical catalogs
https://github.com/astrocatalogs/astrocats

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Astrocats package for constructing astronomical catalogs

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/astrocatalogs/astrocats
• Owner: astrocatalogs
• License: mit
• Created: 2016-01-11T08:24:37.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-09-19T01:17:33.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-10-21T20:48:09.510Z (9 months ago)
• Topics: catalog, open-astronomy-catalogs
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://astrocats.space
• Size: 132 MB
• Stars: 40
• Watchers: 8
• Forks: 12
• Open Issues: 21
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGES.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Astrocats: Open Astronomy Catalogs #

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The Astrocats package enables astronomers to construct their own curated catalogs of astronomical data with the intention of producing shareable catalogs of that data in human-readable formats. Astrocats is used by several existing open astronomy catalogs, including:

* [The Open Supernova Catalog](https://sne.space) [[GitHub repo](https://github.com/astrocatalogs/supernovae)]

* [The Open TDE Catalog](https://tde.space) [[GitHub repo](https://github.com/astrocatalogs/tidaldisruptions)]

* [The Open Nova Catalog](https://opennova.space) [[GitHub repo](https://github.com/astrocatalogs/novae)]

* [The Open Black Hole Catalog](https://holes.space) [[GitHub repo](https://github.com/astrocatalogs/blackholes)]

The process for creating one's own open astronomy catalog involves checking out this package and designing a "module" for it that is specific to that catalog's needs, a [Wiki is available](https://github.com/astrocatalogs/astrocats/wiki) with instructions for doing so. At the moment the most developed module is the Open Supernova Catalog module; to set up astrocats with the supernovae module, one needs to check out two repositories:

```shell

git clone git@github.com:astrocatalogs/astrocats.git

cd astrocats

git clone git@github.com:astrocatalogs/supernovae.git

```

Astrocats will soon be listed on PyPi, at which point the install instructions will involve pip and a setup script, for now the install must be performed manually.