StarFinderBase

class photutils.detection.StarFinderBase

Bases: object

Abstract base class for star finders.

Methods Summary

__call__(data[, mask])	Find stars in an astronomical image.
find_stars(data, *[, mask])	Find stars in an astronomical image.

Methods Documentation

__call__(data, mask=None)

Find stars in an astronomical image.

Parameters:

data2D array_like

The 2D image array.

mask2D bool array, optional

A boolean mask with the same shape as data, where a True value indicates the corresponding element of data is masked. Masked pixels are ignored when searching for stars.

Returns:

tableTable or None

A table of found stars. If no stars are found then None is returned.

abstractmethod find_stars(data, *, mask=None)

Find stars in an astronomical image.

Parameters:

data2D array_like

The 2D image array.

mask2D bool array, optional

A boolean mask with the same shape as data, where a True value indicates the corresponding element of data is masked. Masked pixels are ignored when searching for stars.

Returns:

tableTable or None

A table of found stars. If no stars are found then None is returned.