Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: palpy
Version: 1.4.1
Summary: PAL -- A Positional Astronomy Library
Home-page: https://github.com/Starlink/palpy
Author: Tim Jenness
Author-email: tim.jenness@gmail.com
License: GPL
Description: PALpy - Python positional astronomy library
        ===========================================
        
        PALpy is a python interface to the PAL positional astronomy library
        (<https://github.com/Starlink/pal>). All source code is included with
        the distribution via git submodules.
        
        To build the python interface from the git repository::
        
            git submodule init
            git submodule update
            python setup.py build
            python setup.py install
            python test_pal.py
        
        Requires that Cython and numpy are installed.
        
        The interface uses the same names as the C interface with the pal
        prefix missing::
        
            import palpy as pal
        
            djm = pal.caldj( 1999, 12, 31 )
            (r2000, d2000) = pal.fk45z( 1.2, -0.3, 1960 )
        
        All arguments modified by the C API are returned. No arguments
        are modified. The one routine that is different is palObs which
        returns a simple dict that can be searched using standard python.
        The keys to the dict are the short names and the values are another
        dict with keys name, long, lat and height.
        
        Docstrings are included with each routine describing the python
        usage and the associated C documentation:
        
             help(palpy)
             help(palpy.caldj)
        
        See ``test_pal.py`` for detailed examples of all functions.
        
        Documentation:
        --------------
        
        The module provides documentation on how to use the python interface
        to PAL. It does not contain information on how to use
        PAL itself.
        
        The basic PAL documentation can be found at
        
         http://www.starlink.ac.uk/star/docs/sun267.htx/sun267.html
        
        For more information the SLA documentation provides much more
        detail:
        
          http://www.starlink.ac.uk/star/docs/sun67.htx/sun67.html
        
        A description paper for PAL was published in the ADASS XXII
        conference proceedings:
        
          http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ASPC..475..307J
        
        Please consider citing this if you use PAL or palpy in your
        research.
        
        Further Work
        ----------
        
        Not all the SLALIB routines are available from PAL. More can be added
        as need arises.
        
        Author
        ------
        
        Copyright (C) 2012, 2014
        Tim Jenness (tim.jenness@gmail.com).
        All Rights Reserved.
        
        This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
        modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
        published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of
        the License, or (at your option) any later version.
        
        This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
        useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
        warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
        PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
        
        You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
        along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v2 (GPLv2)
Classifier: Programming Language :: Cython
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: C
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy
Requires: numpy
Requires: Cython
