Articles tagged with 'pyraf'

Resource: User contributed pyraf scripts

Description: Pyraf Scripts
Homepage URL: http://www.lancesimms.com/programs/Python/pyraf/

as a new answer to an earlier Questions post, astropython.org reader Lance Simms contributed a link to his pyraf scripts. a quick perusal of the link store reveals a range of examples from pyraf calls to ccmap and daofind to a  SQL database storage example

thanks, Lance!

Posted by virtualastronomer

Resource: alipy

Description: Convenience script(s) around pyraf/s-extractor to align a stack of dithered FITS images.
Homepage URL: http://obswww.unige.ch/~tewes/alipy/

Alipy provides a set of python scripts that can be used to align a stack of dithered FITS images.  

The included scripts wrap a number of python modules, pyraf, and s-extractor into a linear workflow that is designed to be run interactively by the user ...

Posted by virtualastronomer

Blog: [Question] Any pyraf scripts to share?

One big motivating reason for astropython.org is to collect and share snippets or other scripts that could be reused by other astronomers and help facilitate their research.

So I've found it hard to get started with pyraf because I lack good script examples *in* python for doing some basic reductions. I so often find cl scripts to be untranslatable/unreadable in general.

So my question is ...

Posted by virtualastronomer