[AstroPy] Plotting multiple coordinate grids

Thomas Robitaille thomas.robitaille at gmail.com
Mon Dec 22 11:32:27 EST 2014


Indeed, and in the latest developer version of Astropy, we have support
for the AltAz reference frame. Having said that, I'd be interested in
understanding what kind of projections you would like to use when you
mention 'all-sky'?

Cheers,
Tom

Michael Droettboom wrote:
> You may want to have a look at WCSAxes:
> 
> http://wcsaxes.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
> 
> Mike
> 
> On 12/22/2014 12:42 AM, Varun Bhalerao wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am stuck at what _should_ be a simple process: I want to plot a sky
>> map with RA-dec as well as alt-az grids. For example, many planetarium
>> software will let you print a sky map in which you have multiple sets
>> of gridlines plotted. An ability to interact with healpy (or overplot
>> healpix grids) would be a bonus.
>>
>> What would be the way to go? Basemap? A sample code or MWE would be great.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -- Varun
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