/milkyway_plot

A handy Python package for plotting face-on and all-sky maps of the Milky Way using Matplotlib and Bokeh

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Getting Started

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/

Author

  • Henry Leung - henrysky
    Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto
    Contact Henry: henrysky.leung [at] utoronto.ca

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details