Looking at the universe through matlab?

[gurps409]

Im currently a 3rd year physics student and in struggling a little on trying to plot galaxies on a chart. the simple plot funtion will just give you dots or circles. I am trying to get it to look like a picture of the sky at night.

the information i have is the coordinates of each galaxy and the colour that galaxy.

the only thing i can think of is using meshgrid and the trying to relate the "heat" to the colours but i keep getting errors.

can anyone point me to the right direction...

Thanks

Gurps :)

 

[Aaron Bex]

Hi Gurps,

Have you tried looking into Matplotlib or Seaborn? These libraries can help you create the plots you need and allow you to customize them with colors. You may need to convert your coordinates into a format that is readable by these libraries. This website (https://matplotlib.org/tutorials/introductory/usage.html#sphx-glr-tutorials-introductory-usage-py) provides an example of how to plot data on a chart. Hopefully this helps get you started in the right direction! Best of luck!