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<h1>Astropy v1.2 Released!</h1>
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Dear colleagues,
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<p>
We are very happy to announce the v1.2 release of the Astropy package,
a core Python package for Astronomy:
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<img src="astropy_logo_notext.png" style="width:80px;height:80px;"><br>
<a href="http://www.astropy.org">http://www.astropy.org</a>
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Astropy is a community-driven Python package intended to contain much of the
core functionality and common tools needed for astronomy and astrophysics.
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New and improved major functionality in this release includes:
<ul>
<li>A new class to compute Lomb-Scargle periodograms efficiently using different methods.
<li>A number of new statistics functions including those for Jackknife resampling, circular statistics, and the Akaike and Bayesian information criteria.
<li>Support for getting the positions of solar system bodies in the coordinates sub-package.
<li>The ability to compute Barycentric and Heliocentric light-travel time corrections.
<li>Support for offset coordinate frames, which can be used to define a coordinate system relative to a known position and rotation.
<li>An implementation of the zscale algorithm to determine image limits automatically.
<li>Support for bolometric magnitudes in the units package.
<li>Improvements to the NDData class and subclasses.
<li>Auto-downloading of IERS tables as needed, which gives information about Earth orientation parameters necessary for high precision coordinate calculations and conversions to/from the UT1 scale.
</ul>
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<p>
In addition, hundreds of smaller improvements and fixes have been made. An
overview of the changes is provided at:
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/whatsnew/1.2.html">http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/whatsnew/1.2.html</a>
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<p>
Instructions for installing Astropy are provided on our <a
href="http://www.astropy.org">website</a>, and extensive documentation can be
found at:
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://docs.astropy.org">http://docs.astropy.org</a>
</p>
<p>
If you make use of the <a href="https://www.continuum.io/downloads">Anaconda
Python Distribution</a>, you can update to Astropy v1.2 with:
</p>
<pre>
conda update astropy
</pre>
<p>
Whereas if you usually use pip, you can do:
</p>
<pre>
pip install astropy --upgrade
</pre>
<p>
Note that if you install now you should get Astropy v1.2.1, as some last-minute bug fixes were found and fixed after the v1.2 release was created but before this announcement.
</p>
<p>
Please report any issues, or request new features via our GitHub repository:
</p>
<p>
<a href="https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues">https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues</a>
</p>
<p>
Over 190 developers have contributed code to Astropy so far, and you can find out more about the team behind Astropy here:
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<a href="http://www.astropy.org/team.html">http://www.astropy.org/team.html</a>
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<p>
As a reminder, Astropy v1.0 (our long term support release) will continue to be
supported with bug fixes until Feb 19th 2017, so if you need to use Astropy in
a very stable environment, you may want to consider staying on the v1.0.x set
of releases (for which we have recently released v1.0.10).
</p>
<p>
If you use Astropy directly for your work, or as a dependency to another
package, please remember to include the following acknowledgment at the end of
papers:
</p>
<p class="citation"><cite>This research made use of Astropy, a
community-developed core Python package for Astronomy (Astropy Collaboration,
2013).</cite></p>
<p>where <cite>(Astropy Collaboration, 2013)</cite> is a citation to the <a href="https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322068" target="_blank">Astropy Paper</a> (<a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013A%26A...558A..33A" target="_blank">ADS</a> -
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<p>
Please feel free to forward this announcement to anyone you think might be interested in this release.
</p>
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We hope that you enjoy using Astropy as much as we enjoyed developing it!
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Erik Tollerud, Tom Robitaille, Kelle Cruz, and Tom Aldcroft<br>
on behalf of The Astropy Collaboration
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