astroplan
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Observation planning package for astronomers

* Code: https://github.com/astropy/astroplan
* Docs: https://astroplan.readthedocs.io/
* License: BSD-3

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Status shields
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(mostly useful for developers)

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Attribution
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If you use astroplan in your work, please cite `Morris et al. 2018 <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AJ....155..128M>`_: 

.. code :: bibtex

    @ARTICLE{astroplan2018,
       author = {{Morris}, B.~M. and {Tollerud}, E. and {Sip{\H o}cz}, B. and 
        {Deil}, C. and {Douglas}, S.~T. and {Berlanga Medina}, J. and 
        {Vyhmeister}, K. and {Smith}, T.~R. and {Littlefair}, S. and 
        {Price-Whelan}, A.~M. and {Gee}, W.~T. and {Jeschke}, E.},
        title = "{astroplan: An Open Source Observation Planning Package in Python}",
      journal = {\aj},
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
       eprint = {1712.09631},
     primaryClass = "astro-ph.IM",
     keywords = {methods: numerical, methods: observational },
         year = 2018,
        month = mar,
       volume = 155,
          eid = {128},
        pages = {128},
          doi = {10.3847/1538-3881/aaa47e},
       adsurl = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AJ....155..128M},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
    }