OSSci will be in beautiful Prague this Thursday, May 16. Thanks to the PyData Prague team for putting together a great agenda. 50+ people registered. Please share with your networks.Thanks!

https://medium.com/open-source-science-initiative/may-16-open-source-science-pydata-prague-92fa1fae0ac0

Who uses #guix in any type of research related to #astronomy #astrophysics, please share your wishlist of missing software.

I am working on scheduled update 2024-03 for (gnu guix astronomy), most of it is #python #astropy #jwst related packages.

It would be nice to have https://yt-project.org/

> ... supports structured, variable-resolution meshes, unstructured meshes, and discrete or sampled data such as particles. ...

The package is ready and I might include it in the upcoming update.

New bio !
This week was my last as a researcher, and starting tomorrow I'll work as a contractual research software engineer for the #Astropy project !
I am thrilled about onboarding this thriving community and excited that fixing bugs is now my job instead a distraction from it !

Opportunity to work (for money!) on #Astropy as an independent contractor, invoicing #NumFOCUS:

https://jobs.numfocus.org/job/2023-07-31_astropy

It's sprint day of #SciPy2023! Fun with teams #xarray and #astropy so far. Now, post-lunch, we're ready for round two.

As always, stop by if you're in interested in the remaining swag.

@scipy2023

#Astropy 5.2 was released a few days ago. I contributed to a couple of new functions that allow to draw the beam and a physical scale on celestial maps. These should be useful if you use Astropy to plot #ALMA observations. #Python #OpenSource #Astrodon https://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/whatsnew/5.2.html#drawing-the-instrument-beam-and-a-physical-scale-bar-on-celestial-images

Hello #fediverse! Time for an #introduction

poliastro is an #opensource (MIT) pure #Python library for interactive #Astrodynamics and #OrbitalMechanics. It provides a simple and intuitive API, it's fast thanks to #numba, and it handles physical quantities with units thanks to #Astropy.

Website https://www.poliastro.space/
Source code https://github.com/poliastro/poliastro

We will be posting tips, news about the project, and cool plots. Stay tuned!