About this project

Photutils is a Python library that provides commonly-used tools and key functionality for detecting and performing photometry of astronomical sources. It is a coordinated package of Astropy and integrates well with other Astropackages, making it a powerful tool for astronomical image analysis. Tools include: - Background estimation - Star finding and source detection/extraction - Aperture photometry - PSF photometry - Image segmentation - Centroids - Radial profiles - Elliptical isophote fitting Photutils is available via PyPI and Conda, licensed under a 3-clause BSD license. Documentation is available at photutils.readthedocs.io.