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.