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