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SunPy 4.1.3

  • Installation
  • User’s Guide
    • Brief Tour
    • Data Acquisition
    • Data Types
    • Plotting
    • Units
    • Coordinates
    • Time
    • Customizing sunpy
    • Logging system
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User’s Guide¶

Welcome to the user guide for the sunpy core package. sunpy is a community- developed, free and open-source solar data analysis environment. It is meant to provide the core functionality and tools to analyze solar data with Python. This guide provides a walkthrough of the major features in sunpy. For more details checkout the API Reference.

  • Brief Tour
    • Sample Data
    • Maps
    • TimeSeries
    • Plotting
    • Solar Physical Constants
    • Quantities and Units
    • Working with Times
    • Obtaining Data
    • Database Package
  • Data Acquisition
    • Finding and Downloading Data
    • Finding and Downloading Data from JSOC
    • Searching the Heliophysics Event Knowledgebase
    • Querying Helioviewer.org
    • Downloading Sample Data
    • Using the database package
  • Data Types
    • Map data guide
    • Time series data guide
  • Plotting
    • Matplotlib Tutorial
    • Plotting in sunpy
  • Units
    • Quantity objects
    • Quantities as function arguments
  • Coordinates
    • Observer Location
    • Using Coordinates with Maps
  • Time
    • 1. Parsing Times
    • 2. Time Ranges
  • Customizing sunpy
    • The sunpyrc file
    • Dynamic settings
  • Logging system
    • Overview
    • Configuring the logging system
    • Context managers
  • SSWIDL/sunpy Cheat Sheet
  • Troubleshooting and Bugs
    • Obtaining sunpy version
    • System Info
    • sunpy install location
    • .sunpy directory location
    • Reporting Bugs

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