load_star_image

photutils.datasets.load_star_image(show_progress=False)

Deprecated since version 3.0: This function was deprecated in version 3.0 and will be removed in version 4.0.

Load an optical image of stars.

This is an image of M67 from photographic data obtained as part of the National Geographic Society - Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (NGS-POSS). The image was digitized from the POSS-I Red plates as part of the Digitized Sky Survey produced at the Space Telescope Science Institute.

Parameters:

show_progressbool, optional

Whether to display a progress bar during the download (default is False).

Returns:

hduImageHDU

The M67 image in a FITS image HDU.