astro-rs

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

• Deserialize as lazily as possible
• Balance 'tight' (https://www.ecorax.net/tightness) types and adherance to the FITS API with graceful handling of deviation

Testing

Test assets are from https://esahubble.org/projects/fits_liberator/datasets_archives