FitsMap: A Simple, Lightweight Tool For Displaying Interactive Astronomical Image and Catalog Data
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2022-01-31 v1
Abstract
The visual inspection of image and catalog data continues to be a valuable aspect of astronomical data analysis. As the scale of astronomical image and catalog data continues to grow, visualizing the data becomes increasingly difficult. In this work, we introduce FitsMap, a simple, lightweight tool for visualizing astronomical image and catalog data. FitsMap only requires a simple web server and can scale to over gigapixel images with tens of millions of sources. Further, the web-based visualizations can be viewed performantly on mobile devices. FitsMap is implemented in Python and is open source (https://github.com/ryanhausen/fitsmap).
Cite
@article{arxiv.2201.12308,
title = {FitsMap: A Simple, Lightweight Tool For Displaying Interactive Astronomical Image and Catalog Data},
author = {Ryan Hausen and Brant Robertson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.12308},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
7 pages, 3 figures, Submitted to Astronomy And Computing