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Align a sequence of astronomical FITS files based on sources extracted in each image. The aligned files will be geometrically reprojected so all the images are the same size and shape.

It is designed to work exclusively with reduced data from [Las Cumbres Observatory](https://lco.global). FITS data from LCO is [Rice compressed](https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/fitsio/fpack/) and contains sources extracted using [SEP](https://sep.readthedocs.io/en/v1.0.x/) during our data pipeline processing in a catalog (`CAT`) FITS Header Data Unit (HDU).
It is designed to work exclusively with reduced data from [Las Cumbres Observatory](https://lco.global). FITS data from LCO is [Rice compressed](https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/fitsio/fpack/) and contains sources extracted using [SEP](https://sep.readthedocs.io/en/v1.0.x/) during our data pipeline processing in a catalogue (`CAT`) FITS Header Data Unit (HDU).

## Installation

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catalogues.append(data)
```

## HDU containing catalogues

If you are using a none standard place for your catalogue HDU, that can be passed in a parameter to the `make_transforms()` function i.e.

```
identifications = make_transforms(ref_image, images_to_align, hdu=0)
```

## About

This is a customised fork of [AliPy by Malte Tewes](http://obswww.unige.ch/~tewes/alipy/). I have removed the dependency on SciPy in favour of pure NumPy (for linear algebra) and Pillow (for image array transforms).

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