# An open-source community LSST Solar System Simulator [](https://github.com/dirac-institute/sorcha/actions/workflows/smoke-test.yml) [](https://github.com/dirac-institute/sorcha/actions/workflows/testing-and-coverage.yml) [](https://sorcha.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest) [](http://www.astropy.org/) [](https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/sorcha) [](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sorcha) [](https://lincc-ppt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) Documentation: https://sorcha.readthedocs.io Other software utilities can be found in this github repository: [https://github.com/dirac-institute/sorcha-addons](https://github.com/dirac-institute/sorcha-addons) ## developer best practices * Data sets should be moved to the `src/sorcha/modules/data` folder, have a readme.txt or readme.md to explain where the data came from as well as a time stamp in the readme.txt. * Data sets that are used for unit testing should live in `tests/data`. * All required input files for the main software or unit tests should have extensions that clearly describe the file format (e.g. .csv, .txt, .db, .fits) * If you are working on addressing a specific issue ticket, assign yourself the ticket. * When making a pull request that closes an issue, cite the issue ticket in the pull request summary * Docstrings should follow the [NumPy style](https://numpydoc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/format.html) ## Collaboration This effort is a collaboration between Queen's University Belfast, the University of Washington's DiRAC Institute, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and LINCC Frameworks (through the LINCC Frameworks Incubator Program). This project is supported in part by the generosity of Eric and Wendy Schmidt by recommendation of the Schmidt Futures program.