https://sunpy.org/ 2026-04-16T16:25:23.386674+00:00 ABlog https://sunpy.org/posts/2012/2012-11-27-sunpy-02/ 2012-11-27T00:00:00+00:00 Stuart Mumford <section id="sunpy-0-2"> <p>It has been a busy year but a lot of code later SunPy version 0.2.0 has arrived! This new version of SunPy is quite a change from the old 0.1 release, a few things have changed that make it not backwards compatible, however we feel that the changes are for the better! 14 people have helped to make this release of SunPy a big step forwards, between them they have added 1200 commits to the GitHub page.</p> <p>Below is the main features that have been added for this release:</p> <ul class="simple"> <li><p>Completely re-written plotting routines for most of the core datatypes.</p></li> <li><p>JPEG 2000 support as an input file type.</p></li> <li><p>Improved documentation for much of the code base, including re-written installation instructions.</p></li> <li><p>New lightcurve object</p></li> <li><p>LYRA support</p></li> <li><p>GOES/XRS support</p></li> <li><p>SDO/EVE support</p></li> <li><p>New Spectrum and Spectrogram object (in development)</p></li> <li><p>Spectrogram plotting routines</p></li> <li><p>Callisto spectrum type and support</p></li> <li><p>STEREO/SWAVES support</p></li> <li><p>Map Object</p></li> <li><p>Added support for LASCO, Yohkoh/XRT maps</p></li> <li><p>A new CompositeMap object for overlaying maps</p></li> <li><p>Resample method</p></li> <li><p>Superpixel method</p></li> <li><p>The addition of the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">rotate()</span></code> method for 2D maps.</p></li> </ul> <p>The people who have contributed to this release are:</p> <ul class="simple"> <li><p>Florian Mayer</p></li> <li><p>Keith Hughitt</p></li> <li><p>Jack Ireland</p></li> <li><p>Steven Christe</p></li> <li><p>Stuart Mumford</p></li> <li><p>Albert Shih</p></li> <li><p>Matt Earnshaw</p></li> <li><p>Nicky Chorley</p></li> <li><p>David Perez-Suarez</p></li> <li><p>Andrew Inglis</p></li> <li><p>Russell Hewett</p></li> <li><p>Thomas Robitaille</p></li> <li><p>Jordan Ballew</p></li> <li><p>Arseniy Kustov</p></li> </ul> <p>Thanks to all of them, and may version 0.2 prove very useful to you.</p> </section>

It has been a busy year but a lot of code later SunPy version 0.2.0 has arrived! This new version of SunPy is quite a change from the old 0.1 release, a few things have changed that make it not backwards compatible, however we feel that the changes are for the better! 14 people have helped to make this release of SunPy a big step forwards, between them they have added 1200 commits to the GitHub page.

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