Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: PyNOMAD
Version: 0.1.2
Summary: Routines for accessing a self-hosted local copy of the USNO NOMAD stellar catalog
Home-page: https://github.com/henryroe/PyNOMAD
Author: Henry Roe
Author-email: hroe@hroe.me
License: MIT License
Description: ======= PyNOMAD =======
        
        PyNOMAD is used for accessing a locally hosted copy of The Naval
        Observatory Merged Astrometric Dataset (NOMAD). More information on
        NOMAD is available at: http://www.nofs.navy.mil/nomad/
        
        Full copies of the NOMAD catalog are large: 92Gigs uncompressed or
        30Gigs when compressed with: gzip --best nomad/[0-9][0-9][0-9]/m\*
        
        The nomad.py module works with either uncompressed or compressed copies
        of the catalog.
        
        A typical usage to fetch a region of the catalog is:
        
        ::
        
            #!/usr/bin/env python
        
            from nomad import fetch_nomad_box
        
            ra_range = [281., 281.05]  #    RA is in degrees
            dec_range = [-30.6, -30.55]  #  Dec is in degrees
            stars = fetch_nomad_box(ra_range, dec_range, epoch=2000.0)
        
        A typical usage to retrieve by NOMAD catalog ID is:
        
        ::
        
            #!/usr/bin/env python
        
            from nomad import fetch_star_by_nomad_id
        
            star = fetch_star_by_nomad_id(['0594-0896798'], epoch=None)
        
            stars = fetch_star_by_nomad_id(['0594-0896794', '0594-0896795', 
                                            '0594-0896796', '0594-0896798'], epoch=None)
        
        Note that in all cases the returned object is a ``pandas.DataFrame``.
        
        Some catalog data files used for testing the code are included in:
        test/data These are grabbed directly from USNO's website serving the
        NOMAD database: http://www.nofs.navy.mil/data/fchpix/ These can be used
        to perform one-time tests cross-checking that the nomad module is
        working correctly with the local copy of the catalog. These tests (and
        some other internal consistency checks) can be run by using the
        nomad\_test.py module: python nomad\_test.py
        
        ========
        
        Originally written 2013-04-05 by Henry Roe (hroe@hroe.me)
        
Keywords: NOMAD catalog
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
