leejjoon / pywcsgrid2

astromonical fits image for python matplotlib

http://leejjoon.github.com/pywcsgrid2/

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pywcsgrid2

pywcsgrid2 is a python module to be used with matplotlib for displaying astronomical fits images. It provides a custom Axes class (derived from mpl's original Axes class) suitable for displaying fits images. Its main functionality is to draw ticks, ticklabels, and grids in an appropriate sky coordinates.

Provide a custom Matplotlib Axes class based on mpl_toolkits.axisartist module
Easy integration with mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1 module
For a sampling, see the gallery

pywcsgrid2 sample

Homepage : http://leejjoon.github.com/pywcsgrid2/

Gallery : http://leejjoon.github.com/matplotlib_astronomy_gallery/

LICENSE

lib/kapteyn_celestial.py : from kapteyn package. See LICENSE_kapteyn.txt.

All other files: MIT License. See LICENSE.txt