Overview ======== Introduction ------------ Photutils contains functions for: * performing aperture photometry * performing PSF-fitting photometry * detecting and extracting point-like sources (e.g., stars) in astronomical images * detecting and extracting extended sources using image segmentation in astronomical images * centroiding sources * estimating the background and background RMS in astronomical images * building an effective Point Spread Function (ePSF) * matching PSF kernels * estimating morphological parameters of detected sources The code and issue tracker are available at the following links: * Code: https://github.com/astropy/photutils * Issue Tracker: https://github.com/astropy/photutils/issues Contributors ------------ For the complete list of contributors please see the `Photutils contributors page on GitHub `_.