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Astropy

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tondevrel·vlatest·frontend·MIT

Astropy provides a streamlined interface for astronomical data manipulation and visualization within your frontend applications, simplifying complex calculations.

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    $ npx skills add tondevrel/scientific-agent-skills --skill astropy -a claude-code

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About this skill

What it does

This skill provides access to Astropy, a Python package for astronomy. It enables AI agents to perform tasks such as reading and writing FITS files (a common astronomical data format), working with celestial coordinates, and performing cosmological calculations. The agent can leverage Astropy's functionalities to analyze astronomical datasets and generate reports.

When to use it

  • Analyzing telescope observation data: Process raw data from telescopes into calibrated measurements.
  • Calculating distances to stars or galaxies: Utilize cosmological functions within Astropy for accurate distance estimations.
  • Converting between coordinate systems: Transform coordinates between different celestial reference frames (e.g., equatorial, galactic).
  • Generating astronomical catalogs: Create and manipulate lists of celestial objects with associated properties.

Key capabilities

  • FITS file I/O
  • Celestial coordinate transformations
  • Cosmological calculations
  • Units handling

Example prompts

  • "Can you read the FITS data from this file and tell me the exposure time?"
  • "Convert these equatorial coordinates to galactic coordinates."
  • "Calculate the distance to a galaxy at redshift z=0.5 using the Planck cosmology."

Tips & gotchas

  • Requires Python 3.7 or higher.
  • Familiarity with astronomical concepts and coordinate systems will improve results.