APLpy (the Astronomical Plotting Library in Python) is a Python module aimed at producing publication-quality plots of astronomical imaging data in FITS format.

PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/APLpy

Website: http://aplpy.github.io

Documentation: http://aplpy.readthedocs.io

APLpy is released under an MIT open-source license.

The following dependencies are required:

• Numpy 1.4.1 or later
• Matplotlib 1.0.0 or later
• Astropy 0.2.0 or later

and the following are optional:

• Montage 3.0 or later
• PyAVM
• pyregion
• Python Imaging Library (PIL)
• montage-wrapper 0.9.5 or later

You can install APLpy with:

pip install aplpy