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astroplan Unconference Session

Sample schedule:

14:30-14:50: astroplan tutorial, Q&A

14:50-end: Brainstorm:

  • missing features
  • hack day ideas
  • contributions 😃
  • API improvements

Installing astroplan

Follow these directions to install astroplan. In particular, I strongly suggest that you get the bleeding edge version using:

git clone https://github.com/astropy/astroplan
cd astroplan
python setup.py install

astroplan requires numpy, astropy, pytz, optionally matplotlib, WCSAxes

Alternative: If you don't have the dependencies already installed and setting up will take too long, simply follow along in this notebook

Tutorial by @tobyrsmith

Let's do the astroplan tutorial here. You can either clone the gist that this notebook sits in or save the raw notebook to a file. Open it with

ipython notebook Observing_with_Python.ipynb

Suggestions

  • Can I give it a target and constraints and have it suggest a date/time range? What time of year?
  • Consider integration times
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