{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Using data layers to plot points on the surface of planets" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "This notebook shows how to plot tabular data on the surface of a planet using the AAS WorldWide Telescope through [pywwt](https://pywwt.readthedocs.io/). You can find out more about using pywwt in the [documentation](https://pywwt.readthedocs.io).\n", "\n", "Start off by importing the `WWTJupyterWidget` class:" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "from pywwt.jupyter import WWTJupyterWidget" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "We use this class to create the pywwt \"widget\". Crucially, the second line below (containing just `wwt`) is needed to insert the widget into the notebook, and not just assign it to a variable:" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "wwt = WWTJupyterWidget()\n", "wwt" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "*If you're using JupyterLab* and not just a plain Jupyter notebook, you can move the WWT view to a separate window pane. This is **extremely** useful since it lets you keep on typing code without scrolling WWT out of view. Here's how you do that:\n", "\n", "![Right click and select \"Create New View for Output\"](data/separate-pane-instructions.jpg)\n", "\n", "If you don't get a menu when you right-click, or the menu doesn't look like the one pictured, you are using a plain Jupyter notebook and will have to scroll back and forth.\n", "\n", "Once the widget appears, you can then use the `wwt` object to change the current view to the Earth:" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "wwt.set_view('Earth')" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "Finally we load a dataset and add a data layer in WWT:" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "from astropy.table import Table\n", "EARTHQUAKES = 'https://worldwidetelescope.github.io/pywwt/data/earthquakes_2010.csv'\n", "table = Table.read(EARTHQUAKES, delimiter=',', format='ascii.basic', fast_reader=False)" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "layer = wwt.layers.add_data_layer(table=table, frame='Earth', lon_att='longitude', lat_att='latitude', color='red')" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Credits\n", "\n", "This notebook was prepared by Thomas Robitaille." ] } ], "metadata": { "kernelspec": { "display_name": "Python 3", "language": "python", "name": "python3" }, "language_info": { "codemirror_mode": { "name": "ipython", "version": 3 }, "file_extension": ".py", "mimetype": "text/x-python", "name": "python", "nbconvert_exporter": "python", "pygments_lexer": "ipython3", "version": "3.7.6" } }, "nbformat": 4, "nbformat_minor": 4 }