A tool for quickly inspecting channels in large astronomical data cubes, stored in FITS. Written for use by the POSSUM collaboration.
Use the package manager pip to install cubeinspect.
pip install cubeinspect$ cubei -h
usage: cubei [-h] [-v] [-t] [-c vmin vmax] [-d DPI] fitsfile channel
Open big file and make an average image of a selected channel.
Image will be squared so that Stokes Q and U look reasonable.
Saves a png with same name as FITS image + .medimage.png
positional arguments:
fitsfile FITS file to open
channel Channel to inspect
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v Verbosity.
-t Make thumbnail (takes extra time!)
-c vmin vmax Limits for image (defaults to vmax=std(image))
-d DPI Resolution of saved images in DPI.
Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.