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About
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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.

Installing
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The following dependencies are required:

* [Numpy](http://numpy.scipy.org) 1.4.1 or later
* [Matplotlib](http://www.matplotlib.org) 1.0.0 or later
* [Astropy](http://www.astropy.org) 0.2.0 or later

and the following are optional:

* [Montage](http://montage.ipac.caltech.edu/) 3.0 or later
* [PyAVM](http://astrofrog.github.io/pyavm/)
* [pyregion](http://pyregion.readthedocs.org/)
* [Python Imaging Library](http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/) (PIL)
* [montage-wrapper](http://www.astropy.org/montage-wrapper) 0.9.5 or later

You can install APLpy with:

    pip install aplpy
