Wcsaxes Documentation

wcsaxes Documentation

Release 0.7.dev601 Thomas Robitaille

February 17, 2016

I Installation

1 Requirements 2 Installation 3 Testing

II Getting started

4 Initialization 5 Plotting images and contours

III Ticks, tick labels, and grid lines

6 Coordinate objects 7 Axis labels 8 Tick label format 9 Tick/label spacing and properties 10 Minor ticks 11 Tick, tick label, and axis label position 12 Hiding ticks and tick labels 13 Coordinate grid

IV Overplotting artists

14 Transforms 15 Patches/shapes/lines 16 Contours

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17 Scatter plots

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V Overlaying coordinate systems

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VI Slicing Multidimensional Data

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18 Slicing the WCS object

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19 Plotting the image

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VII Initializing axes

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20 Alternative

83

VIII Controlling Axes

85

21 Changing Axis Units

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22 Changing Axis Directions

89

IX Using a custom frame

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23 Frame properties

97

X Reference/API

99

24 wcsaxes Package

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25 wcsaxes.frame Module

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Python Module Index

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wcsaxes Documentation, Release 0.7.dev601

WCSAxes is a framework for making plots of Astronomical data in Matplotlib. It is affiliated with the Astropy project and is intended for inclusion in the Astropy package once stable.

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