HowManyPhotons 0.1

Simple photon count utility for astronomical fluxes

How Many Bloody Photons

Tiny repo to calculate astronomical photon counts for various instruments

Install

pip install git+https://github.com/AstarVienna/HowManyBloodyPhotons.git 

Basic usage

>>> from astropy import units as u
>>> import hmbp

Find the number of photons emitted by Vega in V band [ph s-1 m-2]::

>> > hmbp.in_zero_vega_mags("V")

Find the number of photons emitted by a Ks=20 [ABmag] point source through the HAWKI Ks filter::

>> > hmbp.for_flux_in_filter("Ks", 20 * u.ABmag,
                             observatory="Paranal",
                             instrument="HAWKI")