Astropy Regions

regions is an in-development coordinated package of Astropy for region handling.

To get an overview of available features, see Getting Started.

The eventual goal is to merge this package into the Astropy core package.

• Code : GitHub repository

• Contributors : https://github.com/astropy/regions/graphs/contributors

Warning

This regions package is still in an early stage of development. It is not yet feature complete but API should be stable enough by now. That said, please have a look and try to use it for your applications. Feedback and contributions are welcome!

Getting Started

• Installation
• Getting Started
• Reporting Issues and Contributing
• License
• Full Changelog

User Documentation

• Region Shapes
• Region Metadata
• Checking for Points Inside Regions
• Combining Regions
• Computing Overlap Masks
• Plotting Regions with Matplotlib
• Reading/Writing Region Files
• Converting Regions to Shapely Objects
• Reference/API

Example

The following example shows how to read a DS9 region file and plot the regions on an image using Matplotlib.

(Source code, png, hires.png, pdf, svg)