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A copy of http://www.astro.rug.nl/software/kapteyn-beta/kapteyn-2.3b2.tar.gz

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cdeil/kapteyn-mirror
• Owner: cdeil
• License: other
• Created: 2014-11-15T14:06:30.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-11-15T14:07:37.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-13T16:16:05.386Z (24 days ago)
• Language: C
• Size: 13.5 MB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.txt
  • Changelog: CHANGES.txt
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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README

        
The Kapteyn Package is a collection of Python modules and applications

developed by members of the computer group (*) of the Kapteyn

Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.  The

purpose of the package is to provide tools for the development of

astronomical applications with Python. 

The package is suitable for both inexperienced and experienced users and

developers and documentation is provided for both groups.  The

documentation also provides in-depth chapters about celestial

transformations and spectral translations. 

Some of the package's features:

   * The handling of spatial and spectral coordinates, WCS projections

     and transformations between different sky systems.  Spectral

     translations (e.g., between frequencies and velocities) are supported

     and also mixed coordinates.  (Modules wcs and celestial. Module wcs

     uses Mark Calabretta's WCSLIB which is distributed with the package.)

   * Versatile tools for writing small and dedicated applications for

     the inspection of FITS headers, the extraction and display of (FITS)

     data, interactive inspection of this data (color editing) and for the

     creation of plots with world coordinate information.  (Module maputils)

     As one example, a gallery of all-sky plots is provided. 

   * A class for the efficient reading, writing and manipulating simple

     table-like structures in text files.  (Module tabarray)

   * Utilities for use with matplotlib such as obtaining coordinate

     information from plots, interactively modifiable colormaps and timer

     events (module mplutil); tools for parsing and interpreting coordinate

     information entered by the user (module positions).

   * A function to search for gaussian components in a profile

     (module profiles) and a class for non-linear least squares fitting

     (module kmpfit). 

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*) Currently Hans Terlouw and Martin Vogelaar