Create Mask toools to create mask for HETDEX

Create Mask module

Module to produce masks for HETDEX

pyhetdex.tools.create_mask.generate_ifu_corner_ra_decs(tp, fplane)

Generate the ra, dec of the four corners of each IFU for a shot. Does this by evaluating the ra and dec at a number of points around each IFU.

Parameters:

tp : pyhetdex.coordinates.tangent_projection:TangentPlane

the astrometry of the shot

fplane : pyhetdex.het.fplane:FPlane

the focal plane object

Returns:

ifuslots : list

a list of the IFU slots

table : astropy.table:Table

table with the corners of the IFU in ra and dec and the IFUSLOT

pyhetdex.tools.create_mask.generate_mangle_polyfile(args=None)

Command line call to generate a Mangle polygon file in vertices format

Mangle reference: http://space.mit.edu/~molly/mangle/

Parameters:

args : list (optional)

list of arguments to parse. If None, grab from command line