Crate astro_rs

astro-rs

This library provides utilities to interact with astronomical data.

Inspired by Astropy (http://astropy.org / https://github.com/astropy/astropy)

Goals

General goals

• Achieve feature compatibility with the Astropy library
• Equal or surpass the Astropy benchmarks

Technical goals

• Use pure Rust as opposed to wrapping other libraries
• Deserialize as lazily as possible
• Balance ‘tight’ (https://www.ecorax.net/tightness) types and adherance to APIs with graceful handling of deviation

Testing

Test assets are from the following sources:

• https://esahubble.org/projects/fits_liberator/datasets_archives
• https://cxc.harvard.edu/cda/

Licensing

• Original code is licensed under the MIT license
• astropy is licensed under BSD-3-Clause
• hifitime is licensed under Apache-2.0

MSRV

This crate’s Minimum Supported Rust Version is 1.60.0.

Modules

coordinatescoordinates

Compare, calculate, and transform spacial coordinates

cosmologycosmology

Represent and calculate data using cosmological models.

fitsfits

Serialize and deserialize FITS data. See https://archive.stsci.edu/fits/fits_standard/fits_standard.html for the FITS API.