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Re: extracing sources from fits images
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description: In article <877620073.26227@dejanews.com>, morisset@iagusp.usp.br wrote: > Hello!, > Is there any package to extract (astronomical) sources > from images (fits from example) and return a set > of coordinates (ra-dec or pixels) and intensities > (or magnitudes)? > Thanks a lot, > C. Morisset, IAG/USP - Sao Paolo - Bresil. > Check out "Astronomy User's Library" home page at: http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/homepage.html You'll probably find what you are looking for. There are routines for reading and writing FITS files and I think DAOPHOT package within AUL will help you with the source fitting and so on... - Saeid ------------------------------------------------------------ ----- | Saeid Zoonematkermani | E-Mail: szoonem@astro.sunysb.edu | | Dept. of Physics & Astronomy | Voice: (+1) (516) 632-8237 | | State University of New York | Fax: (+1) (516) 632-8742 | | Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800 | | ------------------------------------------------------------ ----- | Home Page --> http://ozone.ess.sunysb.edu/ | ------------------------------------------------------------ -----
creator: szoonem
date: 1997-10-23T07:00:00-00:00