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The Astropy Project is a community effort to develop a
single core package for astronomy in Python and foster interoperability between
packages used in the field. This repository contains the core library.

* `Website <https://astropy.org/>`_
* `Documentation <https://docs.astropy.org/>`_
* `Slack <https://astropy.slack.com/>`_
* `Open Astronomy Discourse <https://community.openastronomy.org/c/astropy/8>`_
* `Astropy users mailing list <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/astropy>`_
* `Astropy developers mailing list <https://groups.google.com/g/astropy-dev>`_

Installation
============

To install `astropy` from PyPI, use:

.. code-block:: bash

    pip install astropy

For more detailed instructions, see the `install guide
<https://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/install.html>`_ in the docs.

Contributing
============

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The Astropy Project is made both by and for its users, so we welcome and
encourage contributions of many kinds. Our goal is to keep this a positive,
inclusive, successful, and growing community that abides by the
`Astropy Community Code of Conduct
<https://www.astropy.org/about.html#codeofconduct>`_.

For guidance on contributing to or submitting feedback for the Astropy Project,
see the `contributions page <https://www.astropy.org/contribute.html>`_.
For contributing code specifically, the developer docs have a
`guide <https://docs.astropy.org/en/latest/index_dev.html>`_ with a quickstart.
There's also a `summary of contribution guidelines <CONTRIBUTING.md>`_, and
Astropy's `AI Policy <https://github.com/astropy/astropy-project/blob/main/policies/ai-policy.md>`_.

Developing with Codespaces
==========================

GitHub Codespaces is a cloud development environment using Visual Studio Code
in your browser. This is a convenient way to start developing Astropy, using
our `dev container <.devcontainer/devcontainer.json>`_ configured
with the required packages. For help, see the `GitHub Codespaces
docs <https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces>`_.

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Acknowledging and Citing
========================
See the `acknowledgement and citation guide
<https://www.astropy.org/acknowledging.html>`_ and the `CITATION
<https://github.com/astropy/astropy/blob/main/astropy/CITATION>`_ file.

Supporting the Project
======================

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The Astropy Project is sponsored by NumFOCUS, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in the
United States. You can donate to the project by using the link above, and this
donation will support our mission to promote sustainable, high-level code base
for the astronomy community, open code development, educational materials, and
reproducible scientific research.

License
=======

Astropy is licensed under a 3-clause BSD style license - see the
`LICENSE.rst <LICENSE.rst>`_ file.


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