AstroUtils

General purpose utilities, particularly useful for astronomy calculations. It includes mathematical, non-mathematical, geometrical, sky model, and miscellaneous routines.

Installation

Note that currently this package supports Python 3.6+, but should also support Python 2.7+.

Non-Python Dependencies

The only non-python dependencies required are openmpi and xterm. These can usually be installed via a distro package manager (for Arch Linux, the package names are exactly openmpi and xterm).

openmpi can also be installed in the environment using the mpi4py package.

Using Anaconda or Miniconda

If using the Anaconda/Miniconda python distribution, many of the packages may be installed using conda.

It is best to first create a new env:

conda create -n YOURENV python=2

Then install conda packages:

conda install mpi4py progressbar psutil pyyaml h5py scikit-image

NOTE: at this time, you must install scikit-image via conda, or else it will

try to install packages that are incompatible

Finally, either install AstroUtils directly:

pip install git+https://github.com/nithyanandan/AstroUtils.git

or clone it into a directory and from inside that directory issue the command:

pip install .

Running tests using Pytest

If you have pytest installed, the tests can be run using

pytest --pyargs astroutils

Basic Usage

Typical usage often looks like this:

from astroutils import DSP_modules

from astroutils import geometry

Citing and acknowledging use of AstroUtils

If you use AstroUtils for your research, please acknowledge and cite it using the bibtex entry from https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3831861