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AstroImage.jl is a Julia package for loading, manipulating, and visualizing astronomical images.

It supports FITS files (FITSIO.jl), world coordinates (WCS.jl), rendering images (Images.jl), and plot recipes (Plots.jl).

Quickstart

using AstroImages
using Downloads: download

img = load(download("https://archive.stsci.edu/hlsps/jwst-ero/hlsp_jwst-ero_jwst_miri_carina_f770w_v1_i2d.fits"))

Carina (NGC 3324), Early Release Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (Pontoppidan et al. 2022).

Videos

AstroImages.jl was presented at JuliaCon in 2022. You can view the talk here.