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The Astropy Project is a community effort to develop a single core package for astronomy in Python and foster interoperability between packages used in the field. This repository contains the core library.
Website <https://astropy.org/>_Documentation <https://docs.astropy.org/>_Slack <https://astropy.slack.com/>_Open Astronomy Discourse <https://community.openastronomy.org/c/astropy/8>_Astropy users mailing list <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/astropy>_Astropy developers mailing list <https://groups.google.com/g/astropy-dev>_To install astropy from PyPI, use:
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pip install astropy
For more detailed instructions, see the install guide <https://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/install.html>_ in the docs.
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The Astropy Project is made both by and for its users, so we welcome and
encourage contributions of many kinds. Our goal is to keep this a positive,
inclusive, successful, and growing community that abides by the
Astropy Community Code of Conduct <https://www.astropy.org/about.html#codeofconduct>_.
For guidance on contributing to or submitting feedback for the Astropy Project,
see the contributions page <https://www.astropy.org/contribute.html>.
For contributing code specifically, the developer docs have a
guide <https://docs.astropy.org/en/latest/index_dev.html> with a quickstart.
There's also a summary of contribution guidelines <CONTRIBUTING.md>_.
GitHub Codespaces is a cloud development environment using Visual Studio Code
in your browser. This is a convenient way to start developing Astropy, using
our dev container <.devcontainer/devcontainer.json>_ configured
with the required packages. For help, see the GitHub Codespaces docs <https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces>_.
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See the acknowledgement and citation guide <https://www.astropy.org/acknowledging.html>_ and the CITATION <https://github.com/astropy/astropy/blob/main/astropy/CITATION>_ file.
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The Astropy Project is sponsored by NumFOCUS, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in the United States. You can donate to the project by using the link above, and this donation will support our mission to promote sustainable, high-level code base for the astronomy community, open code development, educational materials, and reproducible scientific research.
Astropy is licensed under a 3-clause BSD style license - see the
LICENSE.rst <LICENSE.rst>_ file.
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We found that astropy demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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