Astronomical Pipeline Software

... is meant to be run in batch mode on large quantities of data, mostly on Unix platforms, with minimum human intervention

Further information:

• astromatic.net
• Terapix
• Astro-WISE

The following packages from AstrOmatic are available:

• SExtractor: source extraction (User Manual)
  
• SCAMP: astrometric calibration  & photometric homogenisation (User Manual)
• SWarp: image regridding and coaddition (User Manual)
• WeightWatcher: combination of weight maps (User Manual, Introduction)

These tools are installed as part of the ESO Science Software package. The current installation on serv2.foa.univie.ac.at is 7.3.1 in the path /scisoft. The following additonal tools are installed:

• MissFITS: maintenance and handling of FITS files (User Manual)
• Stuff: generate object lists for artificial images (check  /usr/share/doc/stuff-1.19/README)
• SkyMaker: generate simulated astronomical images (check /usr/share/doc/skymaker-3.3.3/README)