astropy
Synopsis
- This package provides core astronomy-related functionality to the community, including support for
domain-specific file formats such as Flexible Image Transport System (FITS)
files, Virtual Observatory (VO) tables, and common ASCII table formats, unit
and physical quantity conversions, physical constants specific to astronomy,
celestial coordinate and time transformations, world coordinate system (WCS)
support, generalized containers for representing gridded as well as tabular
data, and a framework for cosmological transformations and conversions.
