Believe or not, there is only one week left to the end of GSoC ! The whole GSoC period became an unforgettable experience for me. I still remember the first time I read the documentation of Sphinx and say “What the hell am I supposed to do now ?”
The website has gone some minor updates to incorporate the latest version of Bootstrap and its build dependencies among other items. This work came from Prateek Chanda, Duygu KEŞKEK and Sourav Kumar
You can find all of the material for the introductory sessions of scientific python and sunpy can be found here.
SunPy 0.7 has arrived! This release is a culmination of about 10 months of work from 27 different people. This release brings many changes, the highlights are:
Steven Christe (@ehsteve) and Stuart Mumford (@Cadair) got to attend the (great) Python in Astronomy conference which took place in Seattle Washington from 21-25th of March 2016.
I wanted to keep people in the loop about what is happening in the SunPy project, so I thought I would start sending out monthy updates about things that have happened and things that are going to happen. This update might be a little longer than usual due to the fact it’s the first one, and I want to get everyone up to speed. Before I start I just wanted to introduce myself just incase any of you have had the fortune of not knowing. I am Stuart Mumford, I submitted my PhD thesis last week at the University of Sheffield. I am currently lead developer of the SunPy project (again) having taken over from Albert.
Announcing the 0.6.1 “thesis submission” release of SunPy. This is a bug fix release and contains the following fixes to things that slipped past us into 0.6:
I am very happy to tell you that the long in the works 0.6.0 release of the SunPy library has arrived. This release has been ‘in the oven’ for well over a year, and is full of rather major changes.
Welcome TESS attendees to the Introduction to Solar Data Analysis in Python!
The SunPy project is happy to announce the release of SunPy 0.5.0. This release consists of 772 commits from 21 people including 9 new contributors, including the ability to co-align map cubes via template matching in scikit image, massive improvements to Map.rotate() including an implementation of an aiaprep calibration routine for SDO/AIA data and the ability to calculate GOES temperature and emission measure from GOES fluxes.
A poster on SunPy was presented at the SPD 2014 Meeting which took place in Boston. A copy of the poster is available online in the sunpy/presentations repo on github.
Wonderful news for SunPy! This year is the 10th edition of Google Summer of Code, and SunPy is participating again for the second year in a row! Remember how awesome it was last year when we got two amazing students? Well, this year is going to be twice as awesome! Why? Because SunPy has gotten twice as many students than in 2013. Let’s introduce them and their projects:
The latest version of SunPy along with an introduction to scientific computing in Python was presented at the 13th RHESSI Workshop on April 3rd, 2014. The presentation was well attended by about 20 people, a significant fraction of the total conference attendees! You can find the presentations (in the form of ipython notebooks) at the following locations
The SunPy community is pleased to announce the release of SunPy 0.4.0. This release contains many new features, some of which are contributed by people who participated in GSOC 2013. It includes the addition of a new local database for storing and searching data, it features a HEK to VSO translator and a new HELIO module in net. As well as this major work has been undertaken on the documentation and a new website developed.
I am happy to announce that for the third year running SunPy has got a summer student from ESA’s SOCIS program. This year the student is Tomas Meszaros. Tomas’ project this summer will be working on creating a new core data type for SunPy, the HyperMap. Which will be designed to hold ND data with at least one spatial dimension and any combination of other axes such as Wavelength, Temperature or Time. This data type will allow us to support data from instruments such as Hinode EIS and the newly launched IRIS satellite, as well as a multitude of high resolution ground based instruments. Tomas will be documenting his progress on his blog: http://examon.wordpress.com as well as less regular more general interest posts on this site.
It gives me great pleasure to announce the release of a new version of SunPy. This version has been rather too long in the making, but is here at last!
Just over a year ago this post described a simple method for saving a movie of SunPy maps. Since then, SunPy and matplotlib have moved on, and I’d like to describe an updated method for animating SunPy maps, and saving the results as an mp4 file.
This year I was lucky enough to be able to attend the annual Scientific Python conference (SciPy 2013) in Austin, Texas. This was very kindly supported by a sponsorship from the conference organisers and sponsors.
Note: I have also a private blog which covers more advanced topics. The next post there will be about implementing custom caches and custom commands.
From our last post you may remember that SunPy is participating in GSOC-2013 under the PSF <http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/2013>`_ (!= Point Spread Function. Yesterday, Google announced the accepted candidates for their summer of code. If you look the list you will find between all these students that there are two whose projects is to work with SunPy.
SunPy is participating in the Google Summer of Code 2013 under the umbrella of the Python Software Foundation .
It has been a busy year but a lot of code later SunPy version 0.2.0 has arrived! This new version of SunPy is quite a change from the old 0.1 release, a few things have changed that make it not backwards compatible, however we feel that the changes are for the better! 14 people have helped to make this release of SunPy a big step forwards, between them they have added 1200 commits to the GitHub page.