Everyone agreed this duplication and incompatibility was bad. Do we as a community really need yet another separate python library for astronomy and yet another attempt at building a core set of routines ported from the IDL library? Marshall Perrin on "astropy" mailing list, June 2011

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   And the final talk of #AAS245 was the Berkeley Prize Lecture by Erik Tollerud, Clara Brasseur, and Kelle Cruz on Astropy.

   In 2011, Tollerud was a grad student who wanted to write a unified library of astronomy packages. There were many astronomy packages, leading to duplicated work and incomparableness.

   This somewhat naive desire started a discussion that eventually became the Astropy project.