The Astropy Project is running its first user survey! With over 50,000 users, 280,000 lines of code written by more than 450 contributors, and over 13,000 unique citations across its three papers, the Astropy Collaboration is made possible by hundreds of volunteer contributors worldwide. For more than a decade, ESO researchers have contributed direct and indirect development efforts to the core astropy package and critical packages in the Astropy ecosystem such as astroquery, advancing software tools for astronomy from the visible and infrared to the sub-mm. The first user survey is now being run to better understand how Astropy and its community of scientific software is being used, how it can be improved, and how it can best continue to support global astronomy and scientific research endeavors. Please take 15 minutes to give your input before 15 May and help us shape the future of astropy.
The First Astropy User Survey is now Open
Published: 02 Apr 2025
About the Astropy Project
The Astropy Project is a community effort to develop a free and open-source core software package for astronomy using Python, as well as to foster interoperability between other Python astronomy packages. The extensive Astropy code library and affiliated packages provide a unified set of tools for astronomers to undertake tasks critical for research, such as querying astronomical web forms and databases, reading and writing astronomical files, coordinate transformations, manipulating quantities with units attached, and modeling and visualizing data.