PyMovie

PyMovie Resources

PyMovie is a stellar occultation aperture photometry program developed by Bob Anderson.

Install instructions:

• Windows 10 (2021-Aug-07)
• Mac

Documentation

• PyMovie Manual
• PyMovie and PyOTE Working Sessions (video)
  • Normalizing light curve to comparison stars
  • PyOTE diffraction analysis – theory and practice
  • Miscellaneous Topics:
    • Using Help in PyMovie
    • VTI time stamp calibration for IOTA VTI and KIWI
    • Two-point tracking in PyMovie
  • PyMovie New User Analysis Tutorial with Rick Frankenberger
• PyMovie Video Tutorials
  1. Introduction to PyMovie
  2. Basic Lightcurve Extraction
  3. IOTA VTI Timestamp Setup
  4. End to End Analysis of Niobe
  5. Use of Tracking Star
  6. Kiwi VTI Timestamp Setup
  7. Use of “finder” image to locate nearly invisible target
  8. Using nova.astrometry.net to locate target
  9. Generating a “finder” image for QHY FITS
  10. Manual WCS frame calibration
  11. Severe wind shake demonstration

Notes:

• “gzip was not found on your system” error when starting PyMovie in Windows. On some installations of PyMovie in Windows, this error message appears when starting PyMovie. You can safely ignore this error – it will not cause problems with PyMovie. However, if you want to eliminate this error, you must find the directory where gzip.exe is installed (possibly under the Anaconda directory), then add this gzip directory to the Path environment variable. WARNING: Changing the path variable can affect other programs in Windows, so you should only make this change if you are confident in your ability to make this change.