maglimit

A package to determine observability of an astronomical object using it's magnitude and telescope's limiting magnitude. The limiting magnitude of a telescope depends only on the aperture of mirror / lens.

$$L_{mag} = 2 + 5\log{D_0}$$ Where $D_0$ is the aperture.

Installation

Using `pip`

The package is installable on Python 3.x. To install the package,

pip install maglimit

Using `GitHub`

Otherwise, clone this repo, and follow the below specified commands

git clone 'https://github.com/iamstarstuff/maglimit'
cd maglimit
pip install -e .

A list of dependencies is available in requirements.txt

Tutorials

You can find the tutorial here: 'maglimit/docs/Tutorials/limiting_magnitude.ipynb'

Future Goals:

We use astroquery.ipac.ned catalogue to query the object by Messier and NGC name. Further we plan to add cross-catalogue query feature.

iamstarstuff/maglimit