Python mViewer: Full Color

If you have multiple images at different wavelengths, it is often useful to combine them as blue, green and red channels in a "full color" composite. The Montage toolkit contains all the functionality necessary to reproject/resample images to a common frame (matched WCS). See the mViewer documents for more details.

import astroMontage.mViewer as mv viewer = mv.mViewer() viewer.set_red_file("SDSS_r.fits") viewer.set_red_stretch("0.1s", "max", "gaussian-log") viewer.set_green_file("SDSS_g.fits") viewer.set_green_stretch("0.1s", "max", "gaussian-log") viewer.set_blue_file("SDSS_u.fits") viewer.set_blue_stretch("0.1s", "max", "gaussian-log") viewer.init_browser_display() Each image is stretched separately. We could have left the stretch at its default setting but in this case that would have resulted in a washed-out background.

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The pseudo-color table used in the previous example is meaningless in this context and will be ignored. mViewer actually maintains information about a grayscale image and the three (blue, green, red) images separately and there is a command ("viewer.setDisplayMode('color') or 'grayscale') for switching between them. Usually, the user intent is clear and mViewer chooses an appropriate mode based on the setup calls.