Hi, I'm a 26 years old Italian engineer. Because to the fact that I'm an astrophile and astronomical tool (expecially under Linux) are not so common, I would like to develop some simple tool for some purposes. Well, I'm not knew to software development but I've never used python. So I want to list you my needed for the first tool, so you can tell me if Python could be a good choice and how to begin the develop. First of all, I need a software running both under Windows and Linux at least (it would be better if running either under MacOS). This is a first reason to choose Python. Secondly, I want a OpenSource tool The software shall be a tool for Star Analyzer (spectroscopic analyzer) images. A similar software already exists, it can be seen at this link (I'm sorry, it is in Italian, but you can understand from the images what is the input and the output)
http://www.astropix.it/software/astrospectrum.html So I've to open an image (various formats, first I could need only .fits), to process the image in order to select the interesting strip containing the star and the spectrum (first image of the link posted, but I hope I can select the strip not only in the horizontal line but I will rotate the image), to obtain a graph like the second and third image (this may be simple, it plots the value of luminosity of each point), calibrate the image using periodical table of elements as shown in 6th image in order to color the graph. Well, I know that many people doesn't understand the problem :) I hope you can be able, with the elements reported above, how I have to proceed, remembering that I've no problem programming in Matlab and C but I've never worked with graphical interfaces and with image processing (only under Matlab). I've learned most of python commands. I think I've to start with some library? Thank you very much and sorry for the poem (and for my english)! PS: If the question is "Why don't you use Astrospectrum?" the answer is: it is only for Linux and is not opensource :( -- Nicola De Quattro Mobile: (+39)3292964937 Web: http://nikde4.altervista.org Skype: lead_expression MSNetwork: lead_express...@hotmail.com _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
