imephutest 0.1.0

Generate finder charts for the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT).

imephu

imephu is a package for Generating finder charts for astronomical observations. While primarily intended for the Southern Africa Large Telescope, it can be used to create completely custom finder charts.

Installation

imephu can be installed with pip in the usual way with

pip install imephu

or, avoiding a potential mismatch between python and pip, with

python -m pip install imephu

Python 3.8 or higher is required.

Usage

A command line interface, imephu, allows you to create finder charts from a configuration file. Refer to the quickstart guide for the details.

Alternatively, you can use an API for creating custom finder charts. An example of how to do this can be found here.

Documentation

The documentation is hosted at https://saltastroops.github.io/imephu/.