source-extractor - extract a source catalogue from an astronomical FITS image
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Copyright
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
SExtractor 2.28.2 December 2024 SEXTRACTOR(1)
Description
SExtractor 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 performs rather well on
moderately crowded star fields.
See http://astromatic.net/software/sextractor for more details.
Operationmodes:-h, --help
print this help, then exit
-V, --version
print version number, then exit
-d, --dump
dump a default configuration file
License
SExtractor is licensed under the terms of the General Public License (GPL), version 3.
Manual
The full documentation for SExtractor is maintained as a PDF manual available at
http://astromatic.net/software/sextractorName
source-extractor - extract a source catalogue from an astronomical FITS image
Reporting Bugs
Please report bugs to the SExtractor software forum at http://astromatic.net/forum.
See Also
missfits(1), psfex(1), scamp(1), sky(1), stiff(1), stuff(1), swarp (1), weightwatcher(1)
Synopsis
source-extractorimage [-cconfiguration-file]
[-parameter1value1-parameter2value2...]
source-extractorimage_detectimage_measure [-cconfiguration-file]
[-parameter1value1-parameter2value2...]
source-extractor-d