PlanetMapper is an open source Python package for visualising, navigating and mapping Solar System observations.

Documentation

For full documentation and API reference, visit planetmapper.readthedocs.io.

Installation

pip install planetmapper --upgrade

conda install -c conda-forge planetmapper

Requires Python 3.10+

Citing PlanetMapper

If you use PlanetMapper in your research, please cite the following paper:

King et al., (2023). PlanetMapper: A Python package for visualising, navigating and mapping Solar System observations. Journal of Open Source Software, 8(90), 5728, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.05728

Citation BibTeX entry

@article{king_2023_planetmapper,
  author  = {King, Oliver R. T. and Fletcher, Leigh N.},
  doi     = {10.21105/joss.05728},
  journal = {Journal of Open Source Software},
  month   = oct,
  number  = {90},
  pages   = {5728},
  title   = {{PlanetMapper: A Python package for visualising, navigating and mapping Solar System observations}},
  url     = {https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.05728},
  volume  = {8},
  year    = {2023}
}

Each PlanetMapper version is also archived on Zenodo at doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7963121.

Key features

Fit and map astronomical observations using a full featured user interface

Easily visualise solar system observations with just a few lines of code

body = planetmapper.Body('saturn', '2020-01-01')
body.plot_wireframe_radec()
plt.show()

Convert coordinates, generate backplanes and project maps of telescope observations

Contributing

If you spot a bug, or want contribute code to PlanetMapper, check out the contributing guidelines.

Help and support

If you have any questions, suggestions or feedback, please visit our support page and get in touch!