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Re: extracing sources from fits images [message #10089] Thu, 23 October 1997 00:00
szoonem is currently offline  szoonem
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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

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