Cutout tools for astronomical images

Astrocut provides tools for making cutouts from sets of astronomical images with shared footprints. It is under active development.

Three main areas of functionality are included:

• Solving the specific problem of creating image cutouts from sectors of Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) full-frame images.

• General fits file cutouts including from single images and sets of images with the shared WCS/pixel scale.

• Cutout post-processing functionality, including centering cutouts along a path (for moving targets) and combining cutouts.

Documentation is at https://astrocut.readthedocs.io.

Project Status

Developer Documentation

$ git clone https://github.com/spacetelescope/astrocut.git
$ cd astrocut
$ pip install .

$ pip install -e .

$ ruff check .
$ ruff format --check .

$ ruff check . --fix
$ ruff format .

$ tox -e test

$ pip install -e .[test]
$ pytest

$ tox -e build_docs

$ pip install -e .[docs]
$ cd docs
$ make html

Contributing

We love contributions! Astrocut is open source, built on open source, and we’d love to have you hang out in our community.

Imposter syndrome disclaimer: We want your help. No, really.

There may be a little voice inside your head that is telling you that you’re not ready to be an open source contributor; that your skills aren’t nearly good enough to contribute. What could you possibly offer a project like this one?

We assure you - the little voice in your head is wrong. If you can write code at all, you can contribute code to open source. Contributing to open source projects is a fantastic way to advance one’s coding skills. Writing perfect code isn’t the measure of a good developer (that would disqualify all of us!); it’s trying to create something, making mistakes, and learning from those mistakes. That’s how we all improve, and we are happy to help others learn.

Being an open source contributor doesn’t just mean writing code, either. You can help out by writing documentation, tests, or even giving feedback about the project (and yes - that includes giving feedback about the contribution process). Some of these contributions may be the most valuable to the project as a whole, because you’re coming to the project with fresh eyes, so you can see the errors and assumptions that seasoned contributors have glossed over.

Note: This disclaimer was originally written by Adrienne Lowe for a PyCon talk, and was adapted by Astrocut based on its use in the README file for the MetPy project.

License

This project is Copyright (c) MAST Archive Developers and licensed under the terms of the BSD 3-Clause license. This package is based upon the Astropy package template which is licensed under the BSD 3-clause license. See the licenses folder for more information.