ScopeSim 0.2.0

Generalised telescope observation simulator

ScopeSim

A telescope observation simulator for Python

Summary

Telescopy aims to simulate images of astronomical objects observed with visual and infrared instruments. It does this by creating models of the optical train and astronomical objects and then pushing the object through the optical train. The resulting 2D image is then broadcast to a detector chip and read out into a FITS file.

This code was originally based on the SimCADO package

Documentation

The main set of documentation can be found here: https://scopesim.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

A basic Jupyter Notebook can be found here: scopesim_basic_intro.ipynb

Dependencies

For and above the latest versions of these packages are compatible with ScopeSim:

numpy >= 1.16
scipy >= 1.0.0
astropy >= 2.0
pyyaml >= 5.1
requests >= 2.20
beautifulsoup4 >= 4.4
synphot >= 0.1.3

For the following packages may not exceed these version numbers:

astropy <= 3.2.3
synphot <= 0.1.3

Oldest currently tested system

Things to watch out for with Synphot

Numpy>=1.16 must be used for synphot to work For Astropy<4.0, only Synphot<=0.1.3 works

Optional dependencies