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 a future version.

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.