Dear colleagues,
We are very happy to announce the third major public release (v0.4) of the astropy package, a core Python package for Astronomy:
Astropy is a community-driven package intended to contain much of the core functionality and common tools needed for performing astronomy and astrophysics with Python.
New and improved major functionality in this release includes:
In addition, hundreds of smaller improvements and fixes have been made. An overview of the changes is provided at:
https://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/whatsnew/0.4.html
Instructions for installing Astropy are provided on our website, and extensive documentation can be found at:
In particular, if you use Anaconda, you can update to v0.4 with:
conda update astropy
Please report any issues, or request new features via our GitHub repository:
https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues
Over 80 developers have contributed code to Astropy so far, and you can find out more about the team behind Astropy here:
http://www.astropy.org/team.html
If you use Astropy directly - or as a dependency to another package - for your work, please remember to include the following acknowledgment at the end of papers:
This research made use of Astropy, a community-developed core Python package for Astronomy (Astropy Collaboration, 2013).
where (Astropy Collaboration, 2013) is a citation to the Astropy Paper (ADS - BibTeX).
Please feel free to forward this announcement to anyone you think might be interested in this release.
We hope that you enjoy using Astropy as much as we enjoyed developing it!
Thomas Robitaille, Erik Tollerud, and Perry Greenfield
on behalf of The Astropy Collaboration