Getting Help with Astropy¶

The best way to get help is usually by asking questions to the Astropy user and development community. There are a number of active forums and you are welcome to use whichever one you are the most comfortable with.

• Open Astronomy Discourse - This forum allows questions to be tagged by topic, is searchable on Google, and displays code snippets well. Please head over and ask (and answer) questions.
• Astropy Slack workspace (get an account) - This forum is primarily focused on developing and maintaining the Astropy project, but the #community-help channel is a good place for users to seek help from the Astropy community.
• Astropy Users Email List [astropy@python.org] - Post questions or start discussions about anything related to Python programming applied to astronomy.
• Astropy Developers Email List [astropy-dev@googlegroups.com] - Start discussions and ask questions about changing or adding functionality to the astropy package. This is also the place where significant announcements for contributors/developers are usually made. If you would like to participate in discussion about how the Project is run, please join this list.