Practical Applications of Astropy | SciPy 2018 | David Shupe

In this talk intended for the astronomy mini-symposium, I will highlight how capabilities in Astropy are used to solve computational problems in two current projects. Coordinate matching, world coordinate systems, and data manipulation are used heavily in parts of the data system for the Zwicky Transient Facility, which processes 1 terabyte of images per night, within 10 minutes of receipt of each exposure. Astropy units and quantities, and the cosmology module, enabled the rapid development of a web application for the proposed Origins Space Telescope.

[QuintinMassey]

New to the astronomical imaging scene. This video was extremely helpful. Thought that was really cool that the person he was hoping to meet was there attending his presentation and was so very helpful. I also appreciated the other attendee who closed the loop on the astro-dynamics Python package (poliastro) question. Thank you all 🙏

[SonOfTerra]

Gonna continue studies to become a radio astronomer in 6 months. Thanks for this =)

[NipkowDisk]

Astropy's sexagesimal angle utilities were a HUGE help to me when I was developing a surveying data conversion program in Python last year!!