README.md

In drastega/specklestar: Reduction of Speckle Data from BTA 6-m Telescope

specklestar

Overview

R package specklestar is a set of C++ and R functions used in the Group of high-resolution methods in astronomy of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Science for reduction of speckle data obtained from BTA 6-m telescope. Input data are series of 512 x 512 (x 2 bytes) speckle images :stars:

For reduction of speckle images of binary and multiple stars we use algorithm described in paper "Differential photometry of speckle-interferometric binary and multiple stars" Pluzhnik E.A., Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.431, p.587-596 (2005).

Installation

First install fftw library. Then install package from CRAN

install.packages("specklestar", dependencies = TRUE, repos = "http://cran.rstudio.com/")

Development version from GitHub

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("drastega/specklestar", build_vignettes = TRUE)

Recommended image viewer

devtools::install_github("yapus/imageviewer")

Usage

See full description in the package vignette

browseVignettes(package = "specklestar")

drastega/specklestar documentation built on Nov. 20, 2023, 8:21 p.m.