Welcome to pyvista’s documentation!¶
pyvista is Python package that provides image display, and some image processing and analysis tools for a versatile quick analysis environment for working with astronomical data (imaging and spectroscopy). The goal is to provide a convenient framework that is relatively straightforward to understand and to use that allows for both performing data processing efficiently but also has options that may be useful pedagogically.
The initial algorithms are relatively simple, but might be extended over time by interested users. pyvista does use routines from other packages including astropy, astroplan, and photutils.
The project is hosted on github, and will be available via pip as stability is achieved. See the Installation page for how to download and set up.
The name pyvista was adopted because it shares some history and a tiny bit of look-and-feel with the VISTA package developed during the 1980s at the University of California by Richard Stover, Tod Lauer, Don Terndrup, and others. The original VISTA was written in Fortran for a VAX/VMS system. It was ported to Unix/X11 by Jon Holtzman, with X11 display routines largely developed by John Tonry, and distributed as xvista. But pyvista has no code in common with previous versions!
Help:
Some documentation can be found at https://pyvista.readthedocs.org
Some examples in the form of Jupyter notebooks, can be found in the doc/notebooks directory, see https://github.com/holtzmanjon/pyvista/tree/main/doc/notebooks
Questions, requests, etc., can be directed to Jon Holtzman at holtz@nmsu.edu
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