Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: hcam-finder
Version: 1.2.1
Summary: Observation planning and finding charts for HiPerCAM
Home-page: https://github.com/HiPERCAM/hcam_finder
Author: Stuart Littlefair
Author-email: s.littlefair@shef.ac.uk
License: MIT license
Download-URL: https://github.com/HiPERCAM/hcam_finder/archive/v1.2.1.tar.gz
Description: ===============================
        hcam-finder
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        Observation planning and finding charts for HiPERCAM, ULTRACAM and ULTRASPEC
        
        The ``hcam_finder`` package provides Python scripts ``hfinder``, ``ufinder`` and ``usfinder``
        for observation planning with HiPERCAM on the WHT and GTC, ULTRACAM on the NTT and
        ULTRASPEC on the TNT, respectively.
        
        These tools allow you to generate finding charts as well as specify the instrument setup
        you require, whilst providing an estimate of observing cadence, exposure time and
        S/N estimates.
        
        .. Note::
        
                Creating a finding chart and instrument setup for the above instruments are more
                tightly connected than is usually the case with CCD imagers. To avoid errors in
                phase II setups, you **must** use the tools above to generate finding charts. By 
                doing so, and reading the instrument-specific documentation below, you will avoid
                the non-optimal phase II setups that arise from a lack of awareness of the peculiarities
                of imagers designed for high time resolution.
        
        ``hcam_finder`` is written in Python and is based on TKinter. It should be compatible
        with Python2 and Python3.
        
        Installation
        ------------
        
        The software is written as much as possible to make use of core Python
        components. It requires my own `hcam_widgets <https://github.com/HiPERCAM/hcam_widgets>`_ module.
        It also relies on the third party libraries `astropy <http://astropy.org/>`_ for astronomical
        calculations and catalog lookup, as well as `ginga <https://ginga.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`_ for
        image display. Optionally, you can also use `astroquery <https://astroquery.readthedocs.io>`_ to expand
        the range of surveys one can download images from.
        
        Installing using ``pip`` should take care of these dependencies. Simply install with::
        
         pip install hcam_finder
        
        or if you don't have root access::
        
         sudo pip install hcam_finder
        
        or::
        
         pip install --user hcam_finder
        
        * Free software: MIT license
        * Documentation: https://hcam-finder.readthedocs.io.
        
        
        
        
        
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        History
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        0.1.0 (2017-02-11)
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        * First release on PyPI.
        
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