Overview

Introduction

Photutils contains tools 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

• estimating the background and background RMS in astronomical images

• centroiding sources

• creating radial profiles and curves of growth

• building an effective Point Spread Function (ePSF)

• matching PSF kernels

• estimating morphological parameters of detected sources

• estimating the limiting depths of images

• fitting elliptical isophotes to galaxies

• creating simulated astronomical images

The code and issue tracker are available at the following links:

• Code: astropy/photutils

• Issue Tracker: astropy/photutils#issues

Like much astronomy software, Photutils is an evolving package. The developers try to maintain backwards compatibility, but at times the API may change if there is a benefit to doing so. If there are specific areas you think API stability is important, please let us know as part of the development process.