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Astropy Documentation
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Welcome to the Astropy documentation! Astropy is a community-driven
package intended to contain much of the core functionality and some common
tools needed for performing astronomy and astrophysics with Python.

.. _getting-started:

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Getting Started
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   install
   importing_astropy
   Example Gallery <generated/examples/index>
   Tutorials <http://tutorials.astropy.org/>
   Get Help <http://www.astropy.org/help.html>
   Contribute and Report Problems <http://www.astropy.org/contribute.html>
   About the astropy project <http://www.astropy.org/about.html>

.. _user-docs:

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User Documentation
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Data structures and transformations
-----------------------------------

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   constants/index
   units/index
   nddata/index
   table/index
   time/index
   coordinates/index
   wcs/index
   modeling/index
   analytic_functions/index

Files, I/O, and Communication
-----------------------------

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   io/unified
   io/fits/index
   io/ascii/index
   io/votable/index
   io/misc
   samp/index
   vo/index

Computations and utilities
--------------------------

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   cosmology/index
   convolution/index
   visualization/index
   stats/index

Nuts and bolts
--------------

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   config/index
   io/registry
   logging
   warnings
   utils/index
   testhelpers
   development/workflow/get_devel_version

.. _developer-docs:

=======================
Developer Documentation
=======================

The developer documentation contains instructions for how to contribute to
Astropy or affiliated packages, as well as coding, documentation, and
testing guidelines. For the guiding vision of this process and the project
as a whole, see :doc:`development/vision`.

There are additional tools of use for developers in the
`astropy/astropy-tools repository
<http://github.com/astropy/astropy-tools>`__.

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   development/workflow/development_workflow
   development/codeguide
   development/docguide
   development/testguide
   development/scripts
   development/building
   development/ccython
   development/releasing
   development/workflow/maintainer_workflow
   development/affiliated-packages
   changelog

.. _project-details:

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Project details
***************

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   stability
   whatsnew/index
   known_issues
   credits
   license

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Index
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`

.. _feedback@astropy.org: mailto:feedback@astropy.org