celestial (version 1.5.8)

Collection of Common Astronomical Conversion Routines and Functions

Description

Contains a number of common astronomy utility functions for cosmology and angular coordinates.

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1.5.8

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GPL-3

Maintainer

Aaron Robotham

Last Published

September 2nd, 2025

Functions in celestial (1.5.8)

celestial-package

Collection of Common Astronomical Conversion Routines and Functions

car2sph

Transforms 3D cartesian coordinates to spherical coordinates

cosorb

Orbital functions

coshalo

Virial halo conversion functions

cosgrow

Cosmological growth and evolution calculations

cosdist

Cosmological distance calculations

Sky Coordinate Matching

Sky matching

cosNFW

Navarro Frenk and White profile

cosmap

Cosmological Mapping Functions

IAUID

IAU name creator.

cosvol

Cosmological volume calculator

eq2gal

Convert Equtorial to Galactic Coordinates

dms2deg

Convert DMS to degrees format.

hms2deg

Convert hms to degrees format.

deg2dms

Convert decimal degrees to dms format.

deg2hms

Convert decimal degrees to hms format.

getpixscale

Get Pixel Scale

planck

Planck's Law and Related Functions

Cosmology Reference Sets

Cosmology parameter data included in celestial package.

cosvar

Driver & Robotham (2010) cosmic variance calculator

skyarea

Exact angular area calculator

sph2car

Transforms 3D spherical coordinates to cartesian coordinates

skyproj

Tan Gnomonic and Sine Orthographic Projection System WCS Solver Functions