A Simple AIA plot

To begin, let's import SunPy, and load one of the included sample maps.

Looks good! Let's see what our Map looks like.


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%matplotlib inline

import sunpy
import sunpy.map

sunpy.AIA_171_IMAGE is just a FITS file distributed with SunPy. You can replace it with a path to any FITS file on your drive.


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aia = sunpy.map.Map(sunpy.AIA_171_IMAGE)

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aia.peek()

Using IPython, we can easily inspect the properties of the Map:


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aia