Installation Instructions

PyNOT is available via PyPI under the name PyNOT-redux. The easiest way to install PyNOT is therefore the following: 

python3 -m pip install PyNOT-redux

If you prefer to install it yourself from the source, you can clone the source code from GitHub and run the installation script: 

git clone https://github.com/jkrogager/pynot.git
cd pynot
python3 setup.py install

NOTE: PyNOT has not been tested for Python versions newer than 3.11!

Dependencies

PyNOT was written using the following Python packages: astroalign, astropy, astroquery, astroscrappy, lmfit, matplotlib, numpy, PyQt5, PyYAML, scipy, and SEP. I want to give a huge shout out to all the developers of these packages. Thanks for developing these fantastic tools and for sharing your work!

As I'm not a professional software developer, and this is a project I run in my spare time, it's very hard for me to stay on top of all the updates to these dependencies. I would therefore really appreciate if you could let me know of any issues you may encounter as you upgrade any of these packages.

Acknowledgements

I want to thank my thesis advisor, Prof. Johan Fynbo for helpful discussions and feedback, and for introducing me to the Nordic Optical Telescope in the first place (back in 2012). I also want to thank Dr. Lise Christensen for extensive testing of the code and for the great suggestions to the UI.