User Guide

Everything you need to understand how healpix-plot works.

Chapters

Concepts

What is a HEALPix grid, levels, indexing schemes, and the HealpixGrid object.

The HEALPix grid

Interpolation

All parameters explained: colormap, projection, interpolation, colorbar.

The plot() function

Sampling grids

How the output pixel grid is defined: dict shorthand, bounding box, or affine transform.

Sampling grids

• The HEALPix grid
• Sampling grids
• The plot() function
• healpix_mollview — HEALPix Mollweide Visualisation