Map#
- sunpy.map.Map = <sunpy.map.map_factory.MapFactory object>#
A factory for generating coordinate aware 2D images.
This factory takes a variety of inputs, such as file paths, wildcard patterns or (data, header) pairs.
Depending on the input different return types are possible.
- Parameters:
*inputs – Inputs to parse for map objects. See the examples section for a detailed list of accepted inputs.
sequence (
bool
, optional) – Return asunpy.map.MapSequence
object comprised of all the parsed maps.composite (
bool
, optional) – Return asunpy.map.CompositeMap
object comprised of all the parsed maps.
- Returns:
sunpy.map.GenericMap
– If the input results in a singular map object, then that is returned.list
ofGenericMap
– If multiple inputs are given andsequence=False
andcomposite=False
(the default) then a list ofGenericMap
objects will be returned.sunpy.map.MapSequence
– If the input corresponds to multiple maps andsequence=True
is set, then aMapSequence
object is returned.sunpy.map.CompositeMap
– If the input corresponds to multiple maps andcomposite=True
is set, then aCompositeMap
object is returned.
Examples
>>> import sunpy.map >>> from astropy.io import fits >>> import sunpy.data.sample >>> mymap = sunpy.map.Map(sunpy.data.sample.AIA_171_IMAGE)