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 --upgradeconda install -c conda-forge planetmapperRequires 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
```bibtex @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!