From barrett at stsci.edu  Wed Oct 13 16:34:26 2004
From: barrett at stsci.edu (Paul Barrett)
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:34:26 -0400
Subject: [Astropy] The Astropy mailing list has moved.
Message-ID: <416D9152.4020105@stsci.edu>

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As you are problably aware, the AstroPy mailing list has moved to scipy.net. 
This move is part of the migration to the scipy.org web site and will include 
the AstroPy web page when that becomes possible.  The scipy.org web site will 
become the umbrella site for Scientific Python and the AstroPy web page will be 
one of several domain pages.

This move will now enable us to archive the postings, which the former 
"majordomo at stsci.edu" mailing list did not.  Over the course of the next few 
weeks, I will try to reconstruct the AstroPy mailing list, though I can't 
guarantee a full reconstruction without some help.  If some early suscriber has 
the complete archive in mbox or similar format, that would enable this task to 
occur much more quickly.

The current mailing list will survive for a little while longer, but please try 
to use the new mailing list from now on.

Cheers and welcome to the new AstroPy mailing list.

  -- Paul

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Phone: 410-338-4475    ESS/Science Software Branch
FAX:   410-338-4767    Baltimore, MD 21218
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From astropy-request at scipy.net  Wed Oct 13 16:35:50 2004
From: astropy-request at scipy.net (astropy-request at scipy.net)
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:35:50 -0500
Subject: Welcome to the "Astropy" mailing list
Message-ID: <mailman.6.1097699750.27914.astropy@scipy.net>

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From barrett at stsci.edu  Mon Oct 18 11:11:06 2004
From: barrett at stsci.edu (Paul Barrett)
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 11:11:06 -0400
Subject: [Astropy] The Astropy mailing list has moved.
In-Reply-To: <p0611041bbd93521d1546@[128.115.172.82]>
References: <416D9152.4020105@stsci.edu> <p0611041bbd93521d1546@[128.115.172.82]>
Message-ID: <4173DD0A.3080606@stsci.edu>

<x-flowed>Rob Managan wrote:

> Let me revise that. I have 140 messages that go back to 2/12/99. Too 
> much of a packrat I guess.
>
> Again, Eudora format for now. It is basically a concatenated list of 
> messages. Not sure how it compares to mbox.

Hi Rob,

Sorry to take so long to respond.  I am definitely interested in getting 
your archived messages.  I probably have all of them scattered about 
somewhere on my hard drive, but your nearly complete list would make my 
life easier at this time.

I forget the exact date when Tom and I started AstroPy, but it wasn't 
more than a year before your first message. It seems to me that it was 
about Sept 1998.

Tom, do you remember the exact date that we began AstroPy?

 -- Paul

-- 
Paul Barrett, PhD      Space Telescope Science Institute
Phone: 410-338-4475    ESS/Science Software Branch
FAX:   410-338-4767    Baltimore, MD 21218

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From barrett at stsci.edu  Wed Oct 13 16:34:26 2004
From: barrett at stsci.edu (Paul Barrett)
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:34:26 -0400
Subject: [Astropy] The Astropy mailing list has moved.
Message-ID: <416D9152.4020105@stsci.edu>


As you are problably aware, the AstroPy mailing list has moved to scipy.net. 
This move is part of the migration to the scipy.org web site and will include 
the AstroPy web page when that becomes possible.  The scipy.org web site will 
become the umbrella site for Scientific Python and the AstroPy web page will be 
one of several domain pages.

This move will now enable us to archive the postings, which the former 
"majordomo at stsci.edu" mailing list did not.  Over the course of the next few 
weeks, I will try to reconstruct the AstroPy mailing list, though I can't 
guarantee a full reconstruction without some help.  If some early suscriber has 
the complete archive in mbox or similar format, that would enable this task to 
occur much more quickly.

The current mailing list will survive for a little while longer, but please try 
to use the new mailing list from now on.

Cheers and welcome to the new AstroPy mailing list.

  -- Paul

-- 
Paul Barrett, PhD      Space Telescope Science Institute
Phone: 410-338-4475    ESS/Science Software Branch
FAX:   410-338-4767    Baltimore, MD 21218


From barrett at stsci.edu  Mon Oct 18 19:29:45 2004
From: barrett at stsci.edu (Paul Barrett)
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:29:45 -0400
Subject: [Astropy] [Fwd: [SciPy-dev] Accessible SciPy (ASP) project]
Message-ID: <417451E9.50407@stsci.edu>


Dear AstroPythoneers,

For those not on the SciPy-Dev mailing list, the attached file discusses 
how Scientific Python might be made more accessible to a wider audience 
and the steps necessary to achieve this.  Since the astronomical 
community has a strong presence in this endeavor, I thought it would be 
appropriate if I forwarded this document to the AstroPy mailing list.

As JFK once said, "Ask not what SciPy can do for you, but what you can 
do for SciPy."

 -- Paul

-- 
Paul Barrett, PhD      Space Telescope Science Institute
Phone: 410-338-4475    ESS/Science Software Branch
FAX:   410-338-4767    Baltimore, MD 21218

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From rowen at u.washington.edu  Fri Oct 22 19:18:40 2004
From: rowen at u.washington.edu (Russell E Owen)
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:18:40 -0700
Subject: [AstroPy] [Ann] PyGuide
Message-ID: <p0620051abd9f41a0f319@[128.95.99.44]>

Announcing PyGuide, a package to support guiding.

PyGuide uses python, numarray and some custom C extensions to find 
stars, centroid and fit star shapes (not including ellipticity).

The algorithms were developed by Jim Gunn and were originally 
designed for guiding on images sent through a coherent fiber bundle. 
Thus they work well even if bits of the image are missing, so long as 
you have a proper mask. In fact our tests show that this code can 
handle guiding on a slitviewer, where the object is mostly down the 
slit (so long as you pay attention to the predicted centroid error 
and don't try to overcorrect when the error is large).

Jim Gunn's original C code has been guiding the SDSS for something 
like a year now, with great success. We have been using PyGuide for 
several months to guide our 3.5m telescope with an offset guider 
(again, quite successfully). We expect to start guiding on an Echelle 
slitviewer within a few months.

The code is released under the Gnu GPL license.

-- Russell
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