mw-plot handy python package to do plotting on a face-on/edge-on milkyway/skymap with matplotlib (https://matplotlib.org/) for static plots or bokeh (https://bokeh.org/) for interactive plots (bokeh module under develop).
You can set the center and radius of the plot anywhere on a milkyway galaxy image with galactic or galactocentric coordinates.
mw_plot
will fill pixels for region outside the pre-compiled images. No acknowledgement to mw_plot
is required if you generate plots for your non-commerical publication, but you must acknowledgement the origin of
the background images. The relevant reference text can by obtained by the property reference
of a mw_plot
class instance.
Documentation is available at https://milkyway-plot.readthedocs.io/
- Henry Leung - henryskyDepartment of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of TorontoContact Henry: henrysky.leung [at] utoronto.ca
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details