Daschlab is a Python package that assists with the retrieval and astrophysical analysis of data from DASCH, the project to scan Harvard College Observatory’s collection of astronomical glass plates. daschlab provides access to hundreds of terabytes of scientific data documenting the history of the entire night sky over the years ~1880–1990.
For information about how and why you might use daschlab, visit the DASCH Data Release 7 (DR7) website. daschlab was developed in conjunction with DASCH DR7 and daschlab examples are included throughout the DR7 documentation.
For installation instructions, see Install daschlab in the DR7
documentation. daschlab is a typical Python package that can be installed with
pip, and is available as a conda-forge package. Dependencies are recorded in
the conda-requirements.txt file and
setup.py.
See the DASCH DR7 site. API reference documentation for daschlab is available at https://daschlab.readthedocs.io/.
For support, file an issue on this project's GitHub tracker or inquire with the DASCH Astrophysics email list.
daschlab was developed by Peter K. G. Williams (@pkgw).
Copyright to this code is owned by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. It is open-source software licensed under the MIT License.