[AstroPy] Current best replacement for splot

[J. Xavier Prochaska]

I'm also rather happy with our GUI in linetools:
http://linetools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

See here for details:

http://linetools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/xspecgui.html

Cheers,
X


On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 3:22 PM, Adam Ginsburg <adam.g.ginsburg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Nic,
>      pyspeckit (pyspeckit.readthedocs.io) is a reasonable replacement.
> Its UI was inspired by splot, though it has a different set of
> keybindings.  This page:
> http://pyspeckit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactive.html
> shows an interactive example that's similar to splot.
>
>      Longer term, the astropy project includes development on several
> spectroscopy-related tools including visualization, but these tools are
> still in an early stage of development.
>
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 10:08 PM, Peter Weilbacher <pweilbacher at aip.de>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Nic,
>>
>> this is tough. splot for many people is still the #1 reason to install
>> IRAF.
>>
>> I think SpecViz (http://specviz.readthedocs.io/en/v0.4.4/index.html) is
>> meant as a Python replacement. Judging from the docs, its interface
>> seems to be a lot more complicated (nothing easier than pressing k-k to
>> measure a line with splot), although probably more powerful in the long
>> run.
>> When I tried it a few weeks ago, I didn't even manage to load one of my
>> FITS spectra. Maybe you have more luck...
>>
>>    Peter.
>>
>> On Sun, 18 Mar 2018, Nicholas Ross wrote:
>>
>> > Dear All,
>> >
>> > A colleague has suggested I use splot for investigating some optical
>> spectra.
>> > However, I don’t have IRAF installed, and would be much keener to use a
>> > Python tool here.
>> >
>> > I know PyRAF exists, but the examples there seem extremely minimal.
>> > Aside from writing one’s own Python/AstroPy reader code, what is the
>> > current best replacement for splot and looking at e.g. optical spectra
>> > FITS data??
>> >
>> > Yours,
>> > Nic
>>
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