SunPy 0.2#
It has been a busy year but a lot of code later SunPy version 0.2.0 has arrived! This new version of SunPy is quite a change from the old 0.1 release, a few things have changed that make it not backwards compatible, however we feel that the changes are for the better! 14 people have helped to make this release of SunPy a big step forwards, between them they have added 1200 commits to the GitHub page.
Below is the main features that have been added for this release:
Completely re-written plotting routines for most of the core datatypes.
JPEG 2000 support as an input file type.
Improved documentation for much of the code base, including re-written installation instructions.
New lightcurve object
LYRA support
GOES/XRS support
SDO/EVE support
New Spectrum and Spectrogram object (in development)
Spectrogram plotting routines
Callisto spectrum type and support
STEREO/SWAVES support
Map Object
Added support for LASCO, Yohkoh/XRT maps
A new CompositeMap object for overlaying maps
Resample method
Superpixel method
The addition of the
rotate()
method for 2D maps.
The people who have contributed to this release are:
Florian Mayer
Keith Hughitt
Jack Ireland
Steven Christe
Stuart Mumford
Albert Shih
Matt Earnshaw
Nicky Chorley
David Perez-Suarez
Andrew Inglis
Russell Hewett
Thomas Robitaille
Jordan Ballew
Arseniy Kustov
Thanks to all of them, and may version 0.2 prove very useful to you.