Bug#805853: ITP: photutils -- Astropy affiliated package for image photometry

[Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Owner: Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org>
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-astro@lists.debian.org,debian-python@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : photutils
  Version         : 0.1
  Upstream Author : Larry Bradley and Brigitta Sipocz
* URL             : https://github.com/astropy/photutils
* License         : BSD-3-Clause
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : Astropy affiliated package for image photometry
 Photutils contains functions for:
  * estimating the background and background rms in astronomical images
  * detecting sources in astronomical images
  * estimating morphological parameters of those sources (e.g., centroid
    and shape parameters)
  * performing aperture and PSF photometry

This is an Astropy Affiliated Package [1]. It will maintained
within the Debian Astronomy Working Group. A git repository is
created on alioth [2].

Best regards

Ole

[1] http://www.astropy.org/affiliated/index.html
[2] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-astro/packages/photutils.git