The Photometry Pipeline (PP) is a Python software package for automated photometric analysis of imaging data from small to medium-sized observatories. It uses Source Extractor and SCAMP to register and photometrically calibrate images based on catalogs that are available online; photometry is measured using Source Extractor aperture photometry. PP has been designed for asteroid observations, but can be used with any kind of imaging data.
Please note that this project is still under development.
See this document for a list of supported instruments and catalogs.
PP requires git for the installation, a number of non-standard Python modules:
and some freely available software:
- Source Extractor (requires the latest development version r345 to use URAT-1)
- SCAMP
PP is available from github. You can get the source code by typing into your terminal:
git clone https://github.com/mommermi/photometrypipeline
PP is evolving. Once you have downloaded PP, you can update to the latest code by simply running:
git pull
after changing into the directory where the code resides on your machine.
See the documentation for more information: documentation
The Photometry Pipeline is distributed under the GNU GPLv3 license.
Copyright (C) 2016 Michael Mommert
Feel free to contact me in case of questions or suggestions: michael (at) mommert . nau . edu