CCD Photometry with Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg41029] CCD Photometry with Mathematica
- From: Jeff Bryant <jeffb at wolfram.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 05:25:28 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
As a personal endeavor, I have recently written a help-browser documented Mathematica package for performing astronomical CCD photometry and FITS data reduction. This package was designed for use with my own data, but I would like to make the package more useful to others in the field. The functions included in the package include Julian date and heliocentric Julian date calculation, photometry, phase-folding, and header parsing routines. Bias subtraction, flat-fielding, normalizing, averaging, and image plotting are supported. Since I only have my own FITS data to work with, I would be interested in hearing opinions and suggestions of the current version so that I can make it more useful to the general astronomical community. The package can be found in the Wolfram Research Information Center by searching for CCD in the search field (should be the first item that appears) or by going directly to the following link: http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/Demos/4858/ There are two files available, an intro notebook and a ZIP file containing the package. Simply unzip the package and put it in your AddOns/Applications directory in Mathematica (or in the $UserAddOnsDirectory). Rebuild your help browser and you are ready to go. Looking forward to any comments. Thanks -Jeff