We recommend you use Anaconda to install the necessary requirements for Starkit to work.

Once you have anaconda installed please make a new environment with the prerequisites for starkit in the following way. This will create an environment called `starkit`:: # for Linux and Python 3 curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/starkit/starkit/master/starkit_gridfix.yml

# for MacOS and Python 3 curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/starkit/starkit/master/starkit_gridfix_macos.yml

# install using yml file into an environment called starkit. # If you want to call it something else, or already have a starkit enivornment, # you can change the -n argument

# for Linux conda env create --file starkit_gridfix.yml -n starkit

# for MacOS conda env create --file starkit_gridfix_macos.yml -n starkit

source activate starkit

For now until a new version of Astropy comes out that fixes some problems of memory leak, you need to install specutils from our fork:

git clone https://github.com/followthesheep/specutils
cd specutils
python setup.py install

Then you can additionally install any other packages you like with:

conda install <your package>

Once this is installed, there are two ways to install starkit. For simple use:

pip install git+https://github.com/starkit/starkit

To download a full development version of starkit, please do:

git clone https://github.com/starkit/starkit
cd starkit
python setup.py develop

• Do, Tuan; Kerzendorf, Wolfgang; Konopacky, Quinn; Marcinik, Joseph M.; Ghez, Andrea; Lu, Jessica R.; Morris, Mark R., Super-solar Metallicity Stars in the Galactic Center Nuclear Star Cluster: Unusual Sc, V, and Y Abundances
• Feldmeier-Krause, A.; Kerzendorf, W.; Neumayer, N.; Schödel, R.; Nogueras-Lara, F.; Do, T.; de Zeeuw, P. T.; Kuntschner, H., KMOS view of the Galactic Centre - II. Metallicity distribution of late-type stars

A few test grids can be found at https://starkit.github.io/starkit/io/available_grids.html. If you use any of these grids, please make sure that the grid from which it is created (like Phoenix grid) is also cited.