NAME

sex - extract a source catalog from an astronomical FITS image

SYNOPSIS

sex image [-c configuration-file]

sex image_detect image_measure [-c configuration-file]

sex -d

DESCRIPTION

SExtractor is a program that builds a catalogue of objects from an astronomical image. Although it is particularly oriented towards reduction of large scale galaxy-survey data, it performs rather well on moderately crowded star fields.
See http://terapix.iap.fr/soft/sextractor for more details.

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 ALSO

swarp(1)

The full documentation for SExtractor is maintained as a Postscript manual available at http://terapix.iap.fr/soft/sextractor