Example Gallery¶

This gallery contains examples of how to use SunPy. Most of these examples require the SunPy sample data, which you can download by running:

>>> import sunpy.data.sample

Once downloaded the data will be stored in your user directory and you will not need to download it again.

Acquiring Data¶

This section contains any examples which showcase how SunPy can be used to download solar data located on remote servers.

Downloading and plotting LASCO C2 data¶

Downloading and plotting an HMI magnetogram¶

Querying the GOES flare event list through the HEK¶

Sample data set overview¶

Searching and downloading from the VSO¶

Map¶

This section contains any examples which showcase how SunPy’s Map can be used with solar data.

Creating a Composite map¶

Cropping a Map¶

Finding bright regions with ndimage¶

Finding contours of a map¶

Finding the brightest pixel¶

Generating a map from data array¶

Histograming map data¶

Plotting a Map without any Axes¶

Plotting a difference image¶

Resampling Maps¶

Rotating a Map¶

Combining, Co-aligning, and Reprojecting Images¶

These examples show how to combine, align and reproject sunpy maps.

Aligning AIA and HMI Data with Reproject¶

Creating a Full Sun Map with AIA and EUVI¶

Creating a Heliographic Map¶

Reprojecting Images to Different Observers¶

Time Series¶

This section contains any examples which showcase how SunPy’s TimeSeries can be used on any supported timeseries data.

Find Peaks in SunPy TimeSeries¶

Flare times on a GOES XRS plot¶

Interacting with Data Using SunPy TimeSeries¶

Making a power spectrum from a TimeSeries¶

Smoothing of timeSeries data using convolution filters¶

The TimeSeriesMetaData class¶

Coordinates, times, and units¶

This section contains any examples which showcasse how SunPy handles coordinate information, times, and scientific units.

AIA to STEREO coordinate conversion¶

Converting between Helioprojective and AltAz Coordinate¶

Drawing the AIA limb on a STEREO EUVI image¶

Getting the location of the planets¶

Getting the observer location from a Map¶

Identifying stars in a STEREO/SECCHI COR2 coronagraph image¶

Overplotting the position of the Venus transit¶

Parsing times with sunpy.time.parse_time¶

Setting the correct position for SOHO in a LASCO C3 Map¶

SunPy Constants¶

Plotting¶

This section contains any examples which showcase how SunPy’s visualization tools can be used on supported data types.

Creating a visualization with ArrayAnimatorWCS¶

Drawing and using a Great Arc¶

Drawing heliographic longitude and latitude lines¶

Editing the colormap and normalization of a Map¶

Fading between two maps¶

Finding Local Peaks in Solar Data¶

Fine grained Plotting Features of Map¶

How to use the LineAnimator¶

Imshow and maps coordinates¶

Loading an HMI daily synoptic image into a Map¶

Overplotting HEK feature/event polygons on a map¶

Overplotting SRS active region locations on a magnetograms¶

Plotting a map¶

Plotting a solar cycle index¶

Simple Differential Rotation¶

Using the SunPy Colormaps with matplotlib¶

Differential Rotation of the Sun¶

This section showcases how to use RotatedSunFrame to account for differential rotation (i.e., the latitude-dependent rotation rate of the Sun) in the coordinates framework.

Differentially rotating a coordinate¶

Differentially rotating a map¶

Overlaying differentially rotated gridlines¶

Saving and Loading Data¶

This section contains any examples which showcase how you can use SunPy to save and load data.

Saving and loading coordinates with asdf¶

Saving and loading sunpy Maps with asdf¶

Computer Vision Techniques¶

This section contains any examples which showcase how SunPy can be used with computer vision techniques to analyze solar data.

Edge Enhancing Coronal Loops¶

Enhancing off-disk emission¶

Finding and masking bright pixels¶

Masking out the solar disk¶

Developer tools¶

This section has examples of sunpy API that might be useful if you are developing another package.

Using Remote Data Manager¶

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