SunPy Documentation

Welcome to SunPy’s documentation.

SunPy is a community-developed, free and open-source solar data analysis environment for Python.

Here, we detail each part of SunPy and provide a user guide and a gallery of examples.

Documentation index and Module index.

• User’s Guide
  • Installation
  • Brief Tour
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Types
  • Plotting
  • Units and Coordinates
  • Time
  • Customizing SunPy
  • Logging system
  • SSWIDL/SunPy Cheat Sheet
  • Troubleshooting and Bugs
• Code Reference
  • SunPy
  • SunPy coordinates
  • SunPy data
  • SunPy database
  • SunPy image
  • SunPy instr
  • SunPy IO
  • SunPy map
  • SunPy net
  • SunPy physics
  • SunPy roi
  • SunPy sun
  • SunPy time
  • SunPy timeseries
  • SunPy util
  • SunPy visualization
  • Current status of sub-packages
  • Known Issues
• Example Gallery
  • Acquiring Data
  • Map
  • Combining, Co-aligning, and Reprojecting Images
  • Time Series
  • Coordinates, times, and units
  • Plotting
  • Differential Rotation of the Sun
  • Saving and Loading Data
  • Computer Vision Techniques
  • Developer tools
• Developer’s Guide
• Release History
  • Full Changelog
  • What’s New in SunPy 3.0?
  • What’s New in SunPy 2.1?
  • What’s New in SunPy 2.0?
  • What’s New in SunPy 1.1?
  • What’s New in SunPy 1.0?
  • What’s New in SunPy 0.9?
  • What’s New in SunPy 0.8?
• Acknowledging or Citing SunPy
  • Citing SunPy in Publications
  • Acknowledging SunPy in Posters and Talks