Astropy v6.0 is going to be released by the end of this year with support for body-fixed reference frame World Coordinate System description! ![]()
The feature has been built on top of the geodetic coordinate representation implemented in 2020 by Juan Luis Cano Rodríguez.
Also, a new bodycentric coordinate representation has been defined.
Each spheroidal body have one or multiple representations used to define a reference frame and its related WCS description.
Some examples using this new feature are available at these links.
- Create a new coordinate frame class for Mars — Astropy v6.0.dev730+g01af846
- Mars Body-fixed frame and representation conversions.
- Planetary images WCS manipulations
This work was made possible thanks to EuroplanetH2024 funding via the Paris Observatory and @s.erard ![]()
A huge thank you goes to all the Astropy developers and in particular to Marten van Kerkwijk who took the time to thoroughly and patiently review the related pull requests.
Enjoy! ![]()
And feel free to add comments or suggestions about the tutorials here or on github.