objectsInField

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This module generates a list of candidate detections for an input population of moving objects in a specified list of field pointings.

Requirements:

• python 3
• spiceypy python library
• pyoorb python library
• other standard python libraries like numpy, pandas, etc.
• NAIF SPICE Utilities

Setup:

• Make sure you can import spiceypy, pyoorb, and other libraries in python.

• Make sure you can run the NAIF SPICE Utility executables from your command line.

• Download the package and run the DownloadKernels.sh script in the kernels/ folder.

• Copy the binary de430.dat file required by pyoorb into the data/ folder.

Usage:

From the main/ folder run python main.py input.config. Refer to the documentation under the doc/ folder for more details.

Note:

Regularly update and run DownloadKernels.sh file to download the latest SPICE kernels.