planetmapper 1.12.0

Description:

planetmapper 1.12.0

PlanetMapper is an open source Python package for visualising, navigating and mapping Solar System observations.
Documentation
For full documentation and API reference, visit planetmapper.readthedocs.io.
Installation
pip install planetmapper --upgrade

conda install -c conda-forge planetmapper

Requires Python 3.10+
Citing PlanetMapper
If you use PlanetMapper in your research, please cite the following paper:

King et al., (2023). PlanetMapper: A Python package for visualising, navigating and mapping Solar System observations. Journal of Open Source Software, 8(90), 5728, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.05728


Citation BibTeX entry
@article{king_2023_planetmapper,
author = {King, Oliver R. T. and Fletcher, Leigh N.},
doi = {10.21105/joss.05728},
journal = {Journal of Open Source Software},
month = oct,
number = {90},
pages = {5728},
title = {{PlanetMapper: A Python package for visualising, navigating and mapping Solar System observations}},
url = {https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.05728},
volume = {8},
year = {2023}
}


Each PlanetMapper version is also archived on Zenodo at doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7963121.
Key features
Fit and map astronomical observations using a full featured user interface

Easily visualise solar system observations with just a few lines of code
body = planetmapper.Body('saturn', '2020-01-01')
body.plot_wireframe_radec()
plt.show()


Convert coordinates, generate backplanes and project maps of telescope observations

Contributing
If you spot a bug, or want contribute code to PlanetMapper, check out the contributing guidelines.
Help and support
If you have any questions, suggestions or feedback, please visit our support page and get in touch!