Difference between revisions of "Stsci python"

Latest revision as of 05:50, 17 March 2010

Background

stsci_python is a library of Python routines and C extensions that has been developed to provide a general astronomical data analysis infrastructure. It includes the following:

• PyRAF, an environment for running IRAF tasks without using the IRAF CL
• MultiDrizzle, a task for combining dithered STScI images
• PyFITS, used to read FITS images and tables into numpy or numarray objects and to manipulate FITS headers
• Numdisplay, used to visualize numpy array objects using image display tools like ds9 and ximtool

Download

You can download the complete stsci_python package from the stsci_python download page

Further Information

http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/pyraf/stsci_python