cartosky

The cartosky package provides a astronomically oriented interface to ploting sky maps based on matplotlib.basemap. This package addresses several issues present in the healpy plotting routines:

1. healpy supports a limited set of sky projections (cartview, mollview, and gnomview)
2. healpy converts sparse healpix maps to full maps to plot; this is memory intensive for large nside

In addition, cartosky provides some convenience functionality for large optical surveys.

Installation

The best way to install cartosky is if you have anaconda installed. If you have trouble, check out the .travis.yml file. The procedure below will create a conda environment and pip install cartosky:

conda create -n cartosky numpy scipy pandas matplotlib cartopy astropy ephem healpy nose -c conda-forge
source activate cartosky
pip install cartosky

If you want the bleeding edge of cartosky, you can follow the directions above to create the conda environment, but then install by cloning directly from github:

git clone https://github.com/kadrlica/cartosky.git
cd cartosky
python setup.py install

Tutorial

If you want to see what you can do with cartosky, check out the tutorial.