Lothar Schanne: Spectro-Python

Lothar Schanne has been dedicated to the use of Python in spectroscopy for quite some time. We would not like to withhold his contribution from you:

"Hello everyone, after having analyzed astronomical spectra increasingly using the Python programming language for about 8 years now, I would like to make these field-tested programs available to you. Some of you have already been working with them for a long time and have used them to replace MIDAS. You can find them under this link as a ZIP archive (in German and English):

Phyton Tools by Lothar Schanne ."

Attached is a PDF manual (Handbook Spektropython), which provides an overview of the programs' functions. We will link this post to the PRACTICE/SOFTWARE page later on.

Georg Piehler, November 2026