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Repository
The Ginga astronomical FITS file viewer
Basic Info
- Host: GitHub
- Owner: ejeschke
- License: bsd-3-clause
- Language: Python
- Default Branch: main
- Size: 82.7 MB
Statistics
- Stars: 124
- Watchers: 9
- Forks: 78
- Open Issues: 99
- Releases: 28
Metadata Files
README.md
GINGA
Ginga is a toolkit designed for building viewers for scientific image data in Python, visualizing 2D pixel data in numpy arrays. It can view astronomical data such as contained in files based on the FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) file format. It is written and is maintained by software engineers at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), and other contributing entities.
The Ginga toolkit centers around an image display object which supports zooming and panning, color and intensity mapping, a choice of several automatic cut levels algorithms and canvases for plotting scalable geometric forms. In addition to this widget, a general purpose "reference" FITS viewer is provided, based on a plugin framework. A fairly complete set of standard plugins are provided for features that we expect from a modern FITS viewer: panning and zooming windows, star catalog access, cuts, star pick/FWHM, thumbnails, etc.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2011-2025 Ginga Maintainers. All rights reserved.
Ginga is distributed under an open-source BSD licence. Please see the
file LICENSE.txt in the top-level directory for details.
BUILDING AND INSTALLATION
The current release of Ginga can be downloaded and installed from pip using:
$ pip install ginga
From source code, you should also use pip, e.g.:
$ cd ginga
$ pip install -e .
The program can then be run using the command "ginga".
For further information, please see the detailed installation instructions in the documentation.
DOCUMENTATION
It is online at http://ginga.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ (dev) and http://ginga.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ (latest release).
CODE OF CONDUCT
See CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md.
FOR DEVELOPERS
See examples/*/example{1,2}_*.py .
There is more information for developers in the manual.
ON THE WEB
http://ejeschke.github.com/ginga
ETYMOLOGY
"Ginga" is the romanized spelling of the Japanese word "銀河" (hiragana: ぎんが), meaning "galaxy" (in general) and, more familiarly, the Milky Way. This viewer was originally written by software engineers at Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan; thus the connection.
Pronunciation
Ginga the viewer may be pronounced "ging-ga" (proper japanese) or "jing-ga" (perhaps easier for Western tongues). The latter pronunciation has meaning in the Brazilian dance/martial art capoeira: a fundamental rocking or back and forth swinging motion. Pronunciation as "jin-ja" is considered poor form.
Owner
- Login: ejeschke
- Kind: user
- Repositories: 15
- Profile: https://github.com/ejeschke
Citation (CITATION)
To reference Ginga in publications, please cite:
@inproceedings{Jeschke15A,
author = {{Jeschke}, E. and {Inagaki}, T. and {Kackley}, R.},
title = "Enhancements to {Ginga}: a {Python} Package for Building Astronomical Data Viewers",
booktitle = "Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXIV",
year = 2015,
editor = {{Taylor}, A.~R. and {Rosolowsky}, E.},
publisher = "ASP",
note = "Vol. 495" }
Other Related Publications
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ASCL ID: 1303.020
Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/4758330
@inproceedings{Lim19A,
author = "P. L. Lim and E. Jeschke",
title = "stginga: Ginga Plugins for Data Analysis and Quality Assurance of HST and JWST Science Data",
booktitle = "Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXVIII",
editor = "P. J. Teuben and M. W. Pound and B. A. Thomas and E. M. Warner",
year = "2019",
publisher = "ASP",
note = "Vol. 523" }
@inproceedings{Jeschke13B,
author = "E. Jeschke",
title = "Ginga: an open-source astronomical image viewer and toolkit",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 12th Python in Science Conference",
year = "2013",
editor = "van der Walt, S. and Millman, J. and Huff, K.",
publisher = "SciPy" }
@inproceedings{Jeschke13A,
author = "E. Jeschke",
title = "Introducing the Ginga FITS Viewer and Toolkit",
booktitle = "ADASS XXII, ASP Conference Series",
year = "2013",
publisher = "ASP" }
@inproceedings{Jeschke12,
author = "E. Jeschke and T. Inagaki and R. Kackley",
title = "A next-generation open-source toolkit for FITS file image viewing",
booktitle = "Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy II",
year = "2012",
editor = "N. Radziwill and G. Chiozzi",
publisher = "SPIE",
note = "Vol. 8451" }
GitHub Events
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- Create event: 8
- Issues event: 22
- Release event: 3
- Watch event: 5
- Delete event: 6
- Issue comment event: 34
- Push event: 48
- Pull request review event: 7
- Pull request event: 19
Last Year
- Create event: 8
- Issues event: 22
- Release event: 3
- Watch event: 5
- Delete event: 6
- Issue comment event: 34
- Push event: 48
- Pull request review event: 7
- Pull request event: 19
Committers
Last synced: 10 months ago
Top Committers
| Name | Commits | |
|---|---|---|
| Eric Jeschke | e****c@n****g | 1,774 |
| Pey Lian Lim | l****m@s****u | 495 |
| Rajul | r****9@g****m | 52 |
| Rupak Das | r****7@g****m | 32 |
| Erik Tollerud | e****d@g****m | 19 |
| Stuart Mumford | s****t@m****k | 12 |
| Brigitta Sipocz | b****z@g****m | 10 |
| Christoph Deil | D****h@g****m | 8 |
| dependabot[bot] | 4****] | 6 |
| Russell Kackley | r****y@n****g | 5 |
| Chi-Hung Yan | c****n@a****w | 4 |
| Sergio Pascual | s****r@f****s | 4 |
| Thomas Robitaille | t****e@g****m | 4 |
| rirze | c****h@g****m | 4 |
| Justin Kunimune | j****u@c****p | 3 |
| Chris Beaumont | b****t@h****u | 3 |
| J. Xavier Prochaska | x****r@u****g | 3 |
| Joe Catera | z****i@g****m | 3 |
| Ray Plante | r****e@n****u | 3 |
| supersandra | s****e@h****m | 3 |
| Raj Karamchedu | r****u@s****m | 3 |
| Miguel de Val-Borro | m****l@a****t | 2 |
| Nabil Freij | n****j@g****m | 2 |
| Megan Sosey | s****y@s****u | 2 |
| Jonathan Eisenhamer | e****r@s****u | 2 |
| Austin Beauchamp | a****h@g****m | 2 |
| Christine Chang | x****g@g****m | 2 |
| Ole Streicher | o****e@d****g | 2 |
| jkunimune15 | j****5@p****u | 1 |
| Brian Cole | b****e@g****u | 1 |
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Issues and Pull Requests
Last synced: 6 months ago
All Time
- Total issues: 70
- Total pull requests: 141
- Average time to close issues: 9 months
- Average time to close pull requests: 4 months
- Total issue authors: 19
- Total pull request authors: 8
- Average comments per issue: 4.34
- Average comments per pull request: 4.98
- Merged pull requests: 117
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 14
Past Year
- Issues: 12
- Pull requests: 20
- Average time to close issues: 1 day
- Average time to close pull requests: 9 days
- Issue authors: 4
- Pull request authors: 3
- Average comments per issue: 1.0
- Average comments per pull request: 0.4
- Merged pull requests: 18
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 10
Top Authors
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- pllim (30)
- ejeschke (21)
- olebole (2)
- StuartLittlefair (2)
- jhennawi (1)
- obi-wan76 (1)
- SunilSimha (1)
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- MNBrod (1)
- JuanCab (1)
- eilatg (1)
- Tang-SL (1)
- tbowers7 (1)
Pull Request Authors
- ejeschke (75)
- pllim (46)
- dependabot[bot] (14)
- olebole (2)
- ayshih (1)
- eteq (1)
- ebroens (1)
- captainshar (1)
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pypi.org: ginga
A scientific image viewer and toolkit
- Homepage: https://ejeschke.github.io/ginga/
- Documentation: https://ginga.readthedocs.io/
- License: BSD
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Latest release: 5.4.0
published 7 months ago
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conda-forge.org: ginga
Ginga is a toolkit designed for building viewers for scientific image data in Python, visualizing 2D pixel data in numpy arrays. The Ginga toolkit centers around an image display class which supports zooming and panning, color and intensity mapping, a choice of several automatic cut levels algorithms and canvases for plotting scalable geometric forms. In addition to this widget, a general purpose ''reference'' FITS viewer is provided, based on a plugin framework. Ginga is distributed under an open-source BSD licence. Please see the file LICENSE.txt in the top-level directory for details.
- Homepage: http://ejeschke.github.com/ginga
- License: BSD-3-Clause
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Latest release: 3.4.1
published over 3 years ago