hpproj 0.6.0

Projection of Healpix maps onto a planar grid

HealPixProjection is a project to allow easy and efficient projection of healpix maps onto planar grids. It can be used as a standalone program cutsky

$ cutsky 0.0 0.0 --mapfilenames HFI_SkyMap_857_2048_R2.00_full.fits

or as a python module

from hpproj import cutsky
result = cutsky([0.0, 0.0], maps={'Planck 857':
                                  {'filename': 'HFI_SkyMap_857_2048_R2.00_full.fits'}
                                  } )

Features

• Galactic and equatorial system supported

• All projection system from wcslib

• Project several healpix maps at once, efficiently !

• Output in fits, png or votable for the central point source photometry

Installation

Install hpproj using pip :

$ pip install hpproj

or by running setuptools on source

$ python setup.py install

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License

This project is licensed under the LGPL+3.0 license.