phoptic

A Python package for reducing astronomical images.

Tutorials:

• Reduction
  • Performance Tip
  • Generating Data
  • Defining an instrument
  • Pre-reduction checks
  • Defining a Reducer
  • Create Source Catalogs
  • Performing Photometry
  • Computing Relative Light Curves
• Instruments
  • Generating observations from a new instrument
  • Defining an instrument from a configuration file
  • Defining an instrument from the phoptic.Instrument base class
  • Gotchas
    • Example: missing keyword
• Corrections
  • Flat-fielding
    • Generating Synthetic Data and Flats
    • Ignoring flat-field corrections
    • Applying Flat-field Corrections
    • Performing Flat-field Corrections
    • Creating Master Flats (Short Way)
  • Dark noise
    • Generating Synthetic Darks
  • Bias Corrections
  • Calibrating calibration images
• Global background esimtation
  • Test Image
  • Default Background
  • Custom Backgrounds
• Local background estimation
  • Generating Data
  • Generating Catalogs
  • DefaultLocalBackground
  • Custom Local Background
• Identifying sources
  • Test Image
  • Default Finder
  • Custom Source Finders
    • Defining the Source Finder
• Timing methods
  • Generating and Reducing Data
    • phoptic.Analyzer routines
    • Lomb-Scargle Periodograms
    • Phase Folding/Binning
  • stingray
    • Lags
• Visualisation Routines
  • Generating Data
  • Background Meshes
  • Alignment GIFs
  • Growth Curves
  • Apertures
  • PSFs
  • Signal-to-noise Ratios
  • Noise Characterisation

Proofs:

• Comparison with Source-Extractor (formerly SExtractor)
  • A test image
  • Source-Extractor
• Calibration and error propagation
  • Generating data
    • Biases
    • Darks
    • Flats
  • Propagation
• API Reference
  • phoptic
    • Submodules
    • Classes
    • Functions
    • Package Contents