[AstroPy] DS9 color tables in Python

[Thomas Robitaille]

On 31 March 2015 at 14:00, Peter Weilbacher <pweilbacher at aip.de> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> has anyone succeeded to set up DS9-like color tables for plotting in
> Python? I'm specifically interested in "heat", "sls", "hsv", and "b".
>
> I know that matplotlib defines somewhat similar tables, but e.g.
> "gist_heat" is just too different from DS9's (and skycat's) heat...

If this doesn't exist, this might be a good addition to
astropy.visualization or pyds9!

Tom


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