PlanetMapper

PlanetMapper is an open source Python package for visualising, navigating and mapping Solar System observations.

Key features

Fit and map astronomical observations using a full featured user interface 

Screenshot of the fitting window after the disc is fit.

Easily visualise solar system observations with just a few lines of code 

body = planetmapper.Body('saturn', '2020-01-01')
body.plot_wireframe_radec()
plt.show()

Plot of Saturn

Convert coordinates, generate backplanes and project maps of telescope observations 

Plot of a mapped Jupiter observation

Citing PlanetMapper 

If you use PlanetMapper in your research, please cite the following paper:

King et al., (2023). PlanetMapper: A Python package for visualising, navigating and mapping Solar System observations. Journal of Open Source Software, 8(90), 5728, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.05728

@article{king_2023_planetmapper,
  author  = {King, Oliver R. T. and Fletcher, Leigh N.},
  doi     = {10.21105/joss.05728},
  journal = {Journal of Open Source Software},
  month   = oct,
  number  = {90},
  pages   = {5728},
  title   = {{PlanetMapper: A Python package for visualising, navigating and mapping Solar System observations}},
  url     = {https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.05728},
  volume  = {8},
  year    = {2023}
}

Examples

API Reference

Appendix