maglimit

A package to determine observability of an astronomical object using it's magnitude and telescope's limiting magnitude. The limiting magnitude of a telescope depends only on the aperture of mirror / lens.

$$L_{mag} = 2 + 5\log{D_0}$$ Where $D_0$ is the aperture.

Installation

Using pip

The package is installable on Python 3.x. To install the package,

pip install maglimit

Using GitHub

Otherwise, clone this repo, and follow the below specified commands

git clone 'https://github.com/iamstarstuff/maglimit'
cd maglimit
pip install -e .

A list of dependencies is available in requirements.txt

Tutorials

You can find the tutorial here: 'maglimit/docs/Tutorials/limiting_magnitude.ipynb'

Future Goals:

• We use astroquery.ipac.ned catalogue to query the object by Messier and NGC name. Further we plan to add cross-catalogue query feature.