The astropy package contains core functionality and some common tools needed for performing astronomy and astrophysics research with Python.

This package contains the tools that come with astropy:

* fitscheck: Detect and fix FITS standards violations * fits2bitmap: Create a bitmap file from a FITS image. * fitsdiff: Compare two FITS image files and report the differences in header keywords and data. * fitsheader: Print the header(s) of one or more FITS file(s) to the standard output in a human-readable format. * samp_hub: SAMP Hub Server. * volint: Check a VOTable file for compliance to the VOTable specification * wcslint: Check the WCS keywords in a FITS file for compliance against the standards