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High Performance Computing, #Python, #astrophysics, Cosmology with @Planck, now data pipelines for @simonsobs, CMB-S4. Staff @SDSC_UCSD. he/him.
Jun 22, 2021 5 tweets 5 min read
Just released @healpy 1.15.0, this is a large release with many important changes, please test and open issues at github.com/healpy/healpy/….

Thread with changes:

* New viz function `projview` based on plain matplotlib, with lon/lat labels and more healpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/newv… Mollweide projection of a map with longitude and latitude la * Finally new default for I/O: write_map keeps dtype of input map array instead of float32, read_map keeps dtype of FITS file instead of upcasting to float64, write_cl uses dtype of input cl instead of float64, see discussion in github.com/healpy/healpy/…