Astrocats: Open Astronomy Catalogs

The Astrocats package enables astronomers to construct their own curated catalogs of astronomical data with the intention of producing shareable catalogs of that data in human-readable formats. Astrocats is used by several existing open astronomy catalogs, including:

• The Open Supernova Catalog [GitHub repo]
• The Open TDE Catalog [GitHub repo]
• The Open Nova Catalog [GitHub repo]
• The Open Black Hole Catalog [GitHub repo]

The process for creating one's own open astronomy catalog involves checking out this package and designing a "module" for it that is specific to that catalog's needs, a Wiki is available with instructions for doing so. At the moment the most developed module is the Open Supernova Catalog module; to set up astrocats with the supernovae module, one needs to check out two repositories:

git clone git@github.com:astrocatalogs/astrocats.git
cd astrocats
git clone git@github.com:astrocatalogs/supernovae.git

Install

This project requires Python 3.11 or later and uses uv for package management.

uv python pin 3.11
uv sync
uv run astrocats setup

Run the test suite with:

uv run pytest