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Zach Pace edited this page Aug 11, 2015
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sdss-plates is a small collection of python software used to generate supplementary educational materials for the SDSS Plates for Education program.
sdss-plates
depends on the following external libraries:
- numpy
- matplotlib
- montage (and montage-wrapper)
- aplpy (though portions that depend do not work very well)
- gz2tools (my own code)
- astropy.table
- pandas
- mpld3
More dependencies (such as basemap) may be added n the future to make things work better
- get FITS images of the field covered by the plate (
plate_img.retrieve_ugr(...)
,plate_img.make_SDSS_FITSFigure(...)
-- depends on aplpy and works only okay) - make a cutout of the field with the plate extent denoted and different kinds of objects plotted in the field (
plate_img.make_SDSS_field_cutout(...)
) - make an html image with clickable links to individual objects on SkyServer (
make_SDSS_field_mpld3(...)
-- depends on mpld3) - demo on plate 4385 here
- Currently, figures are low-res, due to thumbnail size limit. It would be nice to integrate aplpy properly, so montage could fetch everything and make things look nice
- Would also be nice to have AVM data on thumbnails