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Questions tagged [astropy]

Questions related to Astropy, a community Python package for Astronomy

This tag is for questions related to Astropy (http://www.astropy.org). "The Astropy Project is a community effort to develop a single core package for Astronomy in Python and foster interoperability between Python astronomy packages."

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How do I plot orbit planets and satellites?

I need to find the way to plot orbit planets and satellites in a coherent way. Let's say I want to generate a chart of the Moon's orbit around the Earth, or the jovian satellites around Jupiter. The hard way would be the use of a CAD software,…
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Telluric Interference data

I am looking to create a function to correct for telluric interference and to do so I need to find data on Ozone interference. It has been suggested to me that Astropy may have a function that does a similar thing and it would probably retrieve…
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How to get from SED to mag [AB]?

NGC 5406 has the following mag in SIMBAD g (AB) 13.104, r (AB) 12.215, i (AB) 11.803 I wrote a little python snippet to fetch the spectrum of NGC 5406 and compute the mags, but I've hit a wall. I'm getting different values and I think it has…
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Having trouble using astroquery's Vizier.query_region?

I'm having some trouble getting a Vizier search using astropy to work. I'm looking for all sources nearby MWC 614 from the Gaia EDR3 database: Vizier.query_region("MWC 614", radius = 480.0 * u.arcsecond, catalog = "I/350/gaiaedr3") But it keeps…
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