Library

This package contains a library with helpers around photometry with photutils on scopesim generated images. Install with

git clone <this repo>
cd thesis_code
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -e .

Usage

Run astrometry_benchmark.py, after installing the library. This will generate test images and perform astrometry on them and create a bunch of plots in output_files* directories. Also will download a bunch of scopesim files to the current directory, so ideally use a empty one so you don't have to clean up

New 'images' can be added in testdata_generators.py by creating a function returning the image and input table and putting it into the 'images' dictionary with an appopriate filename. Will be automatically picked up in the photometry_benchmark if you want to run it with all the other stuff

If you want to experiment with different parameters, for all images change/add the config in astrometry_benchmark.py or just run astrometry_benchmark.photometry_full on your file/config interactively for a single image.

The generated .mplf files contain pickled matplotlib figures, can be viewed with https://github.com/krachyon/matplotlib_viewer like image files or just run something like

import pickle
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
with open('foo.mplf', 'rb') as f:
    fig = pickle.load(f)
fig.show()
plt.show()    

to open a single one.