A script to calculate the moon avoidance angle for NGTS. Requires astropy, numpy, scipy.optimize and seaborn

python moonAvoidance.py -h 
usage: moonAvoidance.py [-h] [--ghostlim GHOSTLIM] [--ds9]

A script to measure the NGTS moon avoidance angle 

optional arguments: 
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit 
  --outdir OUTDIR      Folder for saving output plots 
  --ghostlim GHOSTLIM  Angle below which to check images for ghosts 
  --ds9                Display the images in DS9? 

The 12 NGTS telescopes were recently fitted with new baffles and so the moon avoidance angle needed to be recalculated.

git clone git@github.com:NGTS/MoonAvoidance.git

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Navigate to the directory containing the fits images to analyse. Then run:

python /path/to/script/moonAvoidance.py --ghostlim 30 

If --outdir is set the plots are saved there. If not, they are saved in the local directory. See below for example output plots.

James McCormac

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