Getting Help with Astropy

The best way to get help is usually by asking questions to the Astropy user and development community. There are a number of active forums and you are welcome to use whichever one you are the most comfortable with.
Open Astronomy Discourse - This forum allows questions to be tagged by topic, is searchable on Google, and displays code snippets well. Please head over and ask (and answer) questions.
Astropy Slack workspace (get an account) - This forum is primarily focused on developing and maintaining the Astropy project, but the #community-help channel is a good place for users to seek help from the Astropy community.
Astropy Users Email List [astropy@python.org] - Post questions or start discussions about anything related to Python programming applied to astronomy.
Astropy Developers Email List [astropy-dev@googlegroups.com] - Start discussions and ask questions about changing or adding functionality to the astropy package. This is also the place where significant announcements for contributors/developers are usually made. If you would like to participate in discussion about how the Project is run, please join this list.
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