astropy

astropy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. It costs 23 tokens per session (2,757 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Python toolkit for astronomy and related data work. It handles sky coordinates, physical units, FITS files, precise times, tables, cosmology, and astronomical images.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to convert between celestial coordinate systems, convert units, read or write FITS files, calculate cosmological values, handle astronomical time scales, join catalogue tables, and map image pixels to sky coordinates.
Why use it?
It removes the need to implement common astronomy calculations and file formats yourself, reducing errors when working with scientific measurements.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Part of the agentic-awesome-skills plugin — 196 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to convert between celestial coordinate systems, convert units, read or write FITS files, calculate cosmological values, handle astronomical time scales, join catalogue tables, and map image pixels to sky coordinates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/astropy
About the project

AAS Core is a local control plane for coding agents that lets them search a large catalogue of skills, choose a stack, validate it, and create a reproducible plan. It is used to assemble and review agent workflows through its CLI, local MCP server, catalogue, plugins, and Workbench. The catalogue add-ons provide the skills, plugins, bundles, and workflows that AAS Core helps agents select and validate.

sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills · 46,184 stars · on GitHub · sickn33.github.io

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill astropy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agentic-awesome-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 196 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,757 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Snyk pass 7 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00023 $0.02757
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.01378
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00551
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00276

Measured 2d ago against content hash a91713fc0b64, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

astropy scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

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plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/astropy/SKILL.md · 337 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 337 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Astropy

Overview

Astropy is the core Python package for astronomy, providing essential functionality for astronomical research and data analysis. Use astropy for coordinate transformations, unit and quantity calculations, FITS file operations, cosmological calculations, precise time handling, tabular data manipulation, and astronomical image processing.

When to Use This Skill

Use astropy when tasks involve:

  • Converting between celestial coordinate systems (ICRS, Galactic, FK5, AltAz, etc.)
  • Working with physical units and quantities (converting Jy to mJy, parsecs to km, etc.)
  • Reading, writing, or manipulating FITS files (images or tables)
  • Cosmological calculations (luminosity distance, lookback time, Hubble parameter)
  • Precise time handling with different time scales (UTC, TAI, TT, TDB) and formats (JD, MJD, ISO)
  • Table operations (reading catalogs, cross-matching, filtering, joining)
  • WCS transformations between pixel and world coordinates
  • Astronomical constants and calculations

Quick Start

import astropy.units as u
from astropy.coordinates import SkyCoord
from astropy.time import Time
from astropy.io import fits
from astropy.table import Table
from astropy.cosmology import Planck18

# Units and quantities
distance = 100 * u.pc
distance_km = distance.to(u.km)

# Coordinates
coord = SkyCoord(ra=10.5*u.degree, dec=41.2*u.degree, frame='icrs')
coord_galactic = coord.galactic

# Time
t = Time('2023-01-15 12:30:00')
jd = t.jd  # Julian Date

# FITS files
data = fits.getdata('image.fits')
header = fits.getheader('image.fits')

# Tables
table = Table.read('catalog.fits')

# Cosmology
d_L = Planck18.luminosity_distance(z=1.0)

Core Capabilities

1. Units and Quantities (astropy.units)

Handle physical quantities with units, perform unit conversions, and ensure dimensional consistency in calculations.

Key operations:

  • Create quantities by multiplying values with units
  • Convert between units using .to() method
  • Perform arithmetic with automatic unit handling
  • Use equivalencies for domain-specific conversions (spectral, doppler, parallax)
  • Work with logarithmic units (magnitudes, decibels)

Read the full file on GitHub · 337 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago Changed · +1 lines a91713fc0b64
  2. 5d ago First seen · 336 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A ce61e597fc3d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

astropy is a skill published in the GitHub repository sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills (46,184 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 2,757 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.

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