SunPy 0.7 Released

The SunPy project is pleased to announce the latest release of the SunPy library. This release is the result of 10 months of work by 27 people. Installation instructions can be found here. The highlights of this release are:

  • The new subpackage sunpy.coordinates enabling the transformation between Helioprojective, Heliocentric and Heliographic coordinate systems. It also makes it easy to calculate and convert co-ordinates from different viewpoints such as SDO and STEREO.

  • A code gallery demonstrating common solar physics tasks using SunPy.

  • New draw_rectangle and draw_contours helpers for Map which make it easier to overplot rectangles and contours on Map plots.

  • Support for data masking in Map and MapCube.

  • Python 3.4 and 3.5 support. We recommend that all new users install Python 3 and that existing users consider upgrading as soon as possible.

The full list of changes and bug fixes can be found here.

If you have questions about using Python for solar physics or want to get involved with the project see our help page for ways to get involved with the community.

http://sunpy.org