Open software?

[MilevaE]

Dear all,

is this package usable for everyone? I'm interesting in something like this to manage a large amount of data that our telescope produce every single night. I'm pretty sure that there are some asteroids hidden in our fits images and I would like to find them. We generate about 13Gb of images every night.

please, let me know

best,

MilE

[yucelkilic]

Hi @MilevaE,

Yes, this is free software licensed with the GPLv3 and you can use and develop it as you wish. You can find out what the A-Track does in the paper in detail. The A-Track can usually run at optimum speed with 5-10 images. 5-10 images are enough to detect all of the detectable (limited by the image quality) moving objects in the images. If the number of images increases, the number of moving object candidates will also increase, so taking the combinations of them into the algorithm will take a long time despite the multiprocessing operation. We do not recommend (~13 GB would be too much at one time). But you can run the pipeline in small data sets. If you do not mind, you can send me 5-10 images, I can test it for you and prepare a customized documentation and I also can improve the code. I had used the A-Track with Pan-STARRS's data before and it worked fine.

Best wishes,

Yucel

[MilevaE]

Hi Yucel,

sorry for my delay I was on holidays. Ok, perfect, thanks for all the information. I will send you soon few images =)

thanks a lot!

best,

Mileva

[MilevaE]

Hi again,

one quick question. I use ubuntu 16.04, is ok? I read in the documentation that it has been tested only on 14.04.

thanks!

[yucelkilic]

Hi @MilevaE,

I do not think it's gonna be a problem. If you encounter a problem, share it with us.

Best wishes,

Yucel