SEXTRACTOR(1) User Commands SEXTRACTOR(1)NAME
sex - extract a source catalog from an astronomical FITS image
SYNOPSIS
sex image [-c configuration-file]
[-parameter1 value1 -parameter2 value2 ...]
sex image_detect image_measure [-c configuration-file]
[-parameter1 value1 -parameter2 value2 ...]
sex -d
DESCRIPTION
SExtractor is a program that builds a catalogue of objects from an
astronomical image. Although it is particularly oriented towards reduc‐
tion of large scale galaxy-survey data, it performs rather well on mod‐
erately crowded star fields.
See http://terapix.iap.fr/soft/sextractor for more details.
Operation modes:
-h, --help
print this help, then exit
-V, --version
print version number, then exit
-d, --dump
dump a default configuration file
AUTHOR
Written by Emmanuel Bertin (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris and
Observatoire de Paris).
Copyright 1994-2005 Emmanuel Bertin
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is
NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <sextractor@iap.fr>.
SEE ALSOswarp(1)
The full documentation for SExtractor is maintained as a Postscript
manual available at http://terapix.iap.fr/soft/sextractor
SWarp 2.5.0 August 2015 SEXTRACTOR(1)