Astropy v6.0 Released!#
Dear colleagues,
We are very happy to announce the v6.0 release of astropy, a core Python package for Astronomy:
The astropy core package is a community-driven Python package intended to contain much of the core functionality and common tools needed for astronomy and astrophysics. It is part of the Astropy Project, which aims to foster an ecosystem of interoperable astronomy packages for Python.
New and improved major functionality in this release includes:
Define Geodetic and Bodycentric Representations via their geometric parameters
Body-fixed planetary reference frames and their WCS description
Support for Numpy broadcasting over frame data and attributes
Updates to cosmology
Updates to how IERS data are handled
Masked Time values now use Masked arrays internally
Reading and writing VO model annotations
TimeDelta string format “quantity_str”
VOTable now supports PARQUET serialization
Faster FITS file decompression
New GeneralSersic2D model
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/6.0.html
Instructions for installing astropy are provided on our website, and extensive documentation can be found at:
If you usually use pip/vanilla Python, you can do:
pip install astropy --upgrade
If you make use of the Anaconda Python Distribution, soon you will be able update to Astropy v6.0 with:
conda update astropy
Or if you cannot wait for Anaconda to update their default version, you can use the conda-forge channel:
conda update -c conda-forge astropy
Please report any issues, or request new features via our GitHub repository:
Over 490 people have contributed code to the core astropy package so far, and you can find out more about the team here:
https://www.astropy.org/team.html
If you use astropy directly for your work, or as a dependency to another package, please remember to acknowledge it by citing the appropriate Astropy paper. For the most up-to-date suggestions, see the acknowledgment page.
We hope that you enjoy using astropy as much as we enjoyed developing it!