Introducing SUNRASTER (New Package)

[Danny Ryan]

Dear all,

We are happy to announce the release of a brand new solar physics python package: SUNRASTER.

sunraster is a SunPy-affiliated package that provides data classes for handling solar spectrogram observations.  The sunraster data classes provide comprehensive slicing, coordinate transformation and visualization functionalities as well as metadata handling.  They support simple spectrograms as well as raster and sit-and-stare observations. 

Anticipated use cases include handling data from instruments like IRIS and Solar Orbiter/SPICE, although the package itself is instrument-agnostic.

For more information, see the docs at: https://sunraster.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

We thank all those who have contributed to sunraster to date, whether via code review, raising issues, general feedback etc.  A particular thanks to those who have contributed code:

Daniel Ryan

Baptiste Pellorce

Kris Stern

Ankit Baruah

Steven Christe

Stuart Mumford

Tiago Pereira

Nabil Freij

Shelbe Timothy

Alberto Sainz Dalda

To install, run these commands:

Pip Users:

pip install -U sunraster

Conda users:

conda install sunraster

GitHub users:

git clone https://github.com/sunpy/sunraster.git

git pull <local upstream name> 0.1.2

Please enjoy and feel free to provide feedback via our GitHub issue tracker: https://github.com/sunpy/sunraster/issues

The sunraster developers