APLpy 0.9.2

APLpy (the Astronomical Plotting Library in Python) is a free and open source Python module aimed at producing publication-quality plots of astronomical imaging data in FITS format.
The APLpy module uses Matplotlib, which is a powerful and interactive plotting package.
APLpy is capable of creating output files in several graphical formats, including EPS, PDF, PS, PNG, and SVG.
NOTE: Details on the installation procedure for APLpy can be found HERE.

Main features:
- Make plots interactively or using scripts
- Show grayscale, colorscale, and 3-color RGB images of FITS files
- Overlay any number of contour sets
- Overlay markers with fully customizable symbols
- Overlay coordinate grids
- Customize the appearance of labels and ticks
- Hide, show, and remove different contour and marker layers
- Pan, zoom, and save any view as a full publication-quality plot
- Save plots as EPS, PDF, PS, PNG, and SVG

System requirements:
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Enhancements
- Improved compatibility issues with matplotlib 0.98.6svn
- Improved speed of initialization of FITSFigure