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    "body": "<section id=\"astlib-python-astronomy-modules\">\n<h1>astLib - Python astronomy modules<a class=\"headerlink\" href=\"#astlib-python-astronomy-modules\" title=\"Permalink to this heading\">\uf0c1</a></h1>\n<img alt=\"https://readthedocs.org/projects/astlib/badge/?version=latest\" src=\"https://readthedocs.org/projects/astlib/badge/?version=latest\" />\n<p><strong>astLib</strong> provides some tools for research astronomers who use Python.</p>\n<ul class=\"simple\">\n<li><p><strong>Documentation:</strong> <a class=\"reference external\" href=\"https://astlib.readthedocs.io\">https://astlib.readthedocs.io</a></p></li>\n<li><p><strong>License:</strong> <a class=\"reference external\" href=\"LICENSE\">LGPL</a></p></li>\n<li><p><strong>Authors:</strong> Matt Hilton &amp; Steven Boada</p></li>\n<li><p><strong>Installation:</strong> <code class=\"docutils literal notranslate\"><span class=\"pre\">pip</span> <span class=\"pre\">install</span> <span class=\"pre\">astLib</span></code></p></li>\n<li><p><strong>Support:</strong> Please use the <a class=\"reference external\" href=\"https://github.com/mattyowl/astLib/issues\">GitHub issues page</a>,\nand/or contact <a class=\"reference external\" href=\"mailto:matt&#46;hilton&#37;&#52;&#48;mykolab&#46;com\">Matt Hilton</a>.</p></li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>astLib</strong> is divided into several modules:</p>\n<ul class=\"simple\">\n<li><p>astCalc   (general calculations, e.g. luminosity distance etc.)</p></li>\n<li><p>astCoords (coordinate conversions etc.)</p></li>\n<li><p>astImages (clip sections from .fits etc.)</p></li>\n<li><p>astPlots  (provides a flexible image plot class, e.g. plot image with catalogue objects overlaid)</p></li>\n<li><p>astSED    (calculate colours, magnitudes from stellar population models or spectral templates, fit photometric observations using stellar population models etc.)</p></li>\n<li><p>astStats  (statistics, e.g. biweight location/scale estimators etc.)</p></li>\n<li><p>astWCS    (routines for using FITS World Coordinate System information)</p></li>\n</ul>\n<p>The astWCS module is a higher level interface to PyWCSTools, a simple SWIG (<a class=\"reference external\" href=\"http://www.swig.org\">http://www.swig.org</a>) wrapping\nof some of the routines from WCSTools by Jessica Mink (<a class=\"reference external\" href=\"http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/wcstools/\">http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/wcstools/</a>). It is\nused by some routines in astCoords, astImages and astPlots.</p>\n<p>The goal of <strong>astLib</strong> was to provide features useful to astronomers that are not included in the scipy\n(<a class=\"reference external\" href=\"http://scipy.org\">http://scipy.org</a>), numpy (<a class=\"reference external\" href=\"http://numpy.scipy.org\">http://numpy.scipy.org</a>) or matplotlib (<a class=\"reference external\" href=\"http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net\">http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net</a>) modules\non which astLib depends. For a far more extensive set of Python astronomy modules, see astropy\n(<a class=\"reference external\" href=\"http://www.astropy.org/\">http://www.astropy.org/</a>).</p>\n<p>Some scripts using <strong>astLib</strong> can be found in the examples/ folder provided with the source code distribution.</p>\n<div class=\"toctree-wrapper compound\">\n<p class=\"caption\" role=\"heading\"><span class=\"caption-text\">Contents:</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"toctree-l1\"><a class=\"reference internal\" href=\"install.html\">Installation</a><ul>\n<li class=\"toctree-l2\"><a class=\"reference internal\" href=\"install.html#installation-on-recent-versions-of-macos-may-no-longer-be-relevant\">Installation on recent versions of macOS (may no longer be relevant)</a></li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li class=\"toctree-l1\"><a class=\"reference internal\" href=\"usage.html\">Usage</a><ul>\n<li class=\"toctree-l2\"><a class=\"reference internal\" href=\"usage.html#known-issues-may-no-longer-be-relevant\">Known issues (may no longer be relevant)</a></li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li class=\"toctree-l1\"><a class=\"reference internal\" href=\"reference.html\">API Reference</a><ul>\n<li class=\"toctree-l2\"><a class=\"reference internal\" href=\"reference.html#module-astLib.astCalc\">astCalc</a></li>\n<li class=\"toctree-l2\"><a class=\"reference internal\" href=\"reference.html#module-astLib.astCoords\">astCoords</a></li>\n<li class=\"toctree-l2\"><a class=\"reference internal\" href=\"reference.html#module-astLib.astImages\">astImages</a></li>\n<li class=\"toctree-l2\"><a class=\"reference internal\" href=\"reference.html#module-astLib.astPlots\">astPlots</a></li>\n<li class=\"toctree-l2\"><a class=\"reference internal\" href=\"reference.html#module-astLib.astWCS\">astWCS</a></li>\n<li class=\"toctree-l2\"><a class=\"reference internal\" href=\"reference.html#module-astLib.astSED\">astSED</a></li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n</section>\n<section id=\"indices-and-tables\">\n<h1>Indices and tables<a class=\"headerlink\" href=\"#indices-and-tables\" title=\"Permalink to this heading\">\uf0c1</a></h1>\n<ul class=\"simple\">\n<li><p><a class=\"reference internal\" href=\"genindex.html\"><span class=\"std std-ref\">Index</span></a></p></li>\n<li><p><a class=\"reference internal\" href=\"py-modindex.html\"><span class=\"std std-ref\">Module Index</span></a></p></li>\n<li><p><a class=\"reference internal\" href=\"search.html\"><span class=\"std std-ref\">Search Page</span></a></p></li>\n</ul>\n</section>\n",
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