Astropy Lesson 2: Photutils.detection | Detecting Stars with DAOStarFinder

In this video, I go over the basics of using the DAOStarFinder tool from the Photutils.detection astropy package. EXAMPLE CODE: Follow this link to find the code used in this video. Look for "L2_photutils-detection.ipynb https://github.com/laingmic005/apertu... PHOTUTILS SOURCE DETECTION Follow this link to explore additional tools included in photutils.detection https://photutils.readthedocs.io/en/s... SOFTWARE Visual Studio Code....................... https://code.visualstudio.com/ Python........................................... https://www.python.org/downloads/ ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work made use of Astropy (http://www.astropy.org) a community-developed core Python package and an ecosystem of tools and resources for astronomy (Astropy, 2013, 2018, 2022) This work made use of Photutils, an Astropy package for detection and photometry of astronomical sources (Bradley et al. 2022).