- Code: https://github.com/astropy/astroplan
- Docs: https://astroplan.readthedocs.io/
- License: BSD-3 Clause
astroplan is an open-source observation planning package for astronomers that can help you plan for everything but the clouds.
It is an Astropy affiliated package that seeks to make your life as an observational astronomer a little less infuriating.
Contributions welcome!
If you use astroplan in your work, please cite Morris et al. 2018:
@ARTICLE{2018AJ....155..128M,
author = {{Morris}, Brett M. and {Tollerud}, Erik and {Sip{\H{o}}cz}, Brigitta and {Deil}, Christoph and {Douglas}, Stephanie T. and {Berlanga Medina}, Jazmin and {Vyhmeister}, Karl and {Smith}, Toby R. and {Littlefair}, Stuart and {Price-Whelan}, Adrian M. and {Gee}, Wilfred T. and {Jeschke}, Eric},
title = "{astroplan: An Open Source Observation Planning Package in Python}",
journal = {\aj},
keywords = {methods: numerical, methods: observational, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics},
year = 2018,
month = mar,
volume = {155},
number = {3},
eid = {128},
pages = {128},
doi = {10.3847/1538-3881/aaa47e},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
eprint = {1712.09631},
primaryClass = {astro-ph.IM},
adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AJ....155..128M},
adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}