SunPy 0.2
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.
Below is the main features that have been added for this release:
- Completely re-written plotting routines for most of the core datatypes.
- JPEG 2000 support as an input file type.
- Improved documentation for much of the code base, including re-written installation instructions.
- New lightcurve object
- LYRA support
- GOES/XRS support
- SDO/EVE support
- New Spectrum and Spectrogram object (in development)
- Spectrogram plotting routines
- Callisto spectrum type and support
- STEREO/SWAVES support
- Map Object
- Added support for LASCO, Yohkoh/XRT maps
- A new CompositeMap object for overlaying maps
- Resample method
- Superpixel method
- The addition of the
rotate() method for 2D maps.
The people who have contributed to this release are:
- Florian Mayer
- Keith Hughitt
- Jack Ireland
- Steven Christe
- Stuart Mumford
- Albert Shih
- Matt Earnshaw
- Nicky Chorley
- David Perez-Suarez
- Andrew Inglis
- Russell Hewett
- Thomas Robitaille
- Jordan Ballew
- Arseniy Kustov
Thanks to all of them, and may version 0.2 prove very useful to you.