SExtractor

SExtractor logoSExtractor is a program that builds a catalogue of objects from an astronomical image. Although it is particularly oriented towards reduction of large scale galaxy-survey data, it can perform reasonably well on moderately crowded star fields. Author: Emmanuel Bertin

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Code

Source

Source

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Documentation

SExtractor User's Manual

User’s Manual

The “official” SExtractor documentation is unfortunately still far from complete; you might want to check out the excellent manual by B.Holwerda: SExtractor for dummies.


Acknowledging SExtractor

Bertin, E. & Arnouts, S. 1996: SExtractor: Software for source extraction, Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement 317, 393 [PDF] [BibTeX entry].