sblunt / orbitize

Orbit-fitting for directly imaged objects
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Add a default plotting utility before running fits #349

Open sblunt opened 10 months ago

sblunt commented 10 months ago

It's pretty common for people to mistype astrometry, or otherwise mess up the formatting in some way. This week alone, I talked to three people who had this issue! I think this could be decreased if orbitize! were to by default plot all the data before starting a fit.

DTCupcakes commented 1 month ago

I've added a method in the system class in the new branch to plot data given in ra/dec and sep/pa (converted to ra/dec). I plan to add functionality to separate different objects/planets in the plot by colour.

Would like to know if any of the following functionality would be useful:

sblunt commented 1 month ago

Great! Can you make a pull request? I'll try to check it out this week.