Installing and Configuring¶
Obtaining QACITS¶
QACITS is hosted on github at https://github.com/vortex-exoplanet/QACITS.
The master branch is a development branch and may be frequently changed. For
publishable/reproducible results, we strongly recommend using the latest tagged
release from:
Installing QACITS¶
You can download QACITS from its GitHub repository as a zip file. A setup.py file (setuptools) is included in the root folder of QACITS.
Enter the package’s root folder and run:
$ python setup.py install
Python Package Dependencies¶
QACITS requires Python 3.6+ and the following packages:
photutils
astropy
numpy
scipy
matplotlib (for visualization of results only)
Run-time Environment and Deployment¶
While in closed-loop observation mode, QACITS should run on a real-time clock workstation, featuring high core CPU count and sufficient main memory.