legacystamps 1.2.2

Small module to retrieve cutouts from the Legacy Survey.

legacystamps

A tiny Python module to allow easy retrieval of a cutout from the Legacy survey.

Installation

This package can be installed simply by running pip install legacystamps. It can also be installed manually with python setup.py install.

Usage

To use it in a script, import and use the module as follows. To get a FITS cutout:

import legacystamps
legacystamps.download(ra=ra, dec=dec, mode='fits', bands='grz', size=cutsize)

or to get a JPEG cutout:

import legacystamps
legacystamps.download(ra=ra, dec=dec, mode='jpeg', bands='grz', size=cutsize)

It can also run standalone. See legacystamps.py -h for available options after installation.

Requirements

The following packages are required:

• requests
• tqdm

Acknowledgements

If you use legacystamps in your work, please consider acknowledging this package through

This work made use of the legacystamps package (https://github.com/tikk3r/legacystamps).

and the acknowledgements associated to https://legacysurvey.org/.