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astroplan
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Observation planning package for astronomers
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Attribution +++++++++++
If you use astroplan in your work, please cite Morris et al. 2018 <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AJ....155..128M/abstract>_:
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@ARTICLE{2018AJ....155..128M, author = {{Morris}, Brett M. and {Tollerud}, Erik and {Sip{\H{o}}cz}, Brigitta and {Deil}, Christoph and {Douglas}, Stephanie T. and {Berlanga Medina}, Jazmin and {Vyhmeister}, Karl and {Smith}, Toby R. and {Littlefair}, Stuart and {Price-Whelan}, Adrian M. and {Gee}, Wilfred T. and {Jeschke}, Eric}, title = "{astroplan: An Open Source Observation Planning Package in Python}", journal = {\aj}, keywords = {methods: numerical, methods: observational, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics}, year = 2018, month = mar, volume = {155}, number = {3}, eid = {128}, pages = {128}, doi = {10.3847/1538-3881/aaa47e}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, eprint = {1712.09631}, primaryClass = {astro-ph.IM}, adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AJ....155..128M}, adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System} }
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Observation planning package for astronomers
We found that astroplan demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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