Astrodata User Manual

Document ID

PIPE-USER-106_AstrodataUserManual

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Reference Documents
  • 1.2. What is astrodata?
  • 1.3. Installing Astrodata
  • 1.4. Try it yourself
  • 1.5. Astrodata Support
• 2. The AstroData Object
  • 2.1. Global vs Extension-specific
  • 2.2. Organization of the Global Information
  • 2.3. Organization of the Extension-specific Information
  • 2.4. A Note on Memory Usage
• 3. Input and Output Operations and Extension Manipulation - MEF
  • 3.1. Imports
  • 3.2. Open and access existing dataset
  • 3.3. Modify Existing MEF Files
  • 3.4. Writing back to disk
  • 3.5. Create New MEF Files
• 4. Astrodata Tags
  • 4.1. What are the Astrodata Tags?
  • 4.2. Using the Astrodata Tags
  • 4.3. Using typewalk
  • 4.4. Creating New Astrodata Tags [Advanced Topic]
• 5. Metadata and Headers
  • 5.1. Astrodata Descriptors
  • 5.2. Accessing Metadata
  • 5.3. Updating, Adding and Deleting Metadata
  • 5.4. World Co-ordinate System attribute
  • 5.5. Adding Descriptors [Advanced Topic]
• 6. Pixel Data
  • 6.1. Operate on Pixel Data
  • 6.2. Arithmetic on AstroData Objects
  • 6.3. Variance
  • 6.4. Data Quality Plane
  • 6.5. Display
  • 6.6. Useful tools from the NumPy, SciPy, and Astropy Packages
  • 6.7. Using the Astrodata Data Quality Plane
  • 6.8. Manipulate Data Sections
  • 6.9. Data Cubes
  • 6.10. Plot Data
• 7. Table Data
  • 7.1. Tables and Astrodata
  • 7.2. Operate on a Table
  • 7.3. Create a Table

Appendix

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• List of Gemini Standard Descriptors
• Reference API

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page