Example gallery

This gallery of examples shows a variety of relatively small snippets or examples of tasks that can be done with the Astropy core package.

Longer-form tutorials (or tutorials for affiliated packages) belong at https://learn.astropy.org (and can be submitted at the associated github repository).

astropy.coordinates

General examples of the astropy.coordinates subpackage.

Convert a radial velocity to the Galactic Standard of Rest (GSR)

Convert a radial velocity to the Galactic Standard of Rest (GSR)

Determining and plotting the altitude/azimuth of a celestial object

Determining and plotting the altitude/azimuth of a celestial object

Create a new coordinate frame class for Mars

Create a new coordinate frame class for Mars

Transforming positions and velocities to and from a Galactocentric frame

Transforming positions and velocities to and from a Galactocentric frame

Create a new coordinate class (for the Sagittarius stream)

Create a new coordinate class (for the Sagittarius stream)