Making custom apertures by combining existing Apertures
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Description
It's rather a question...
I wanted to make a pillbox-shaped aperture, as in TRIPPY (e.g., [here](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/fraserw/trippy/blob/master/tutorial/trippytutorial.ipynb)), because all the stars in my images are trailed (due to the non-sidereal tracking mode).
I thought it will be easy enough because what I have to do is just combining two circles with a rectangle (overlapping regions will not matter much if I use ``mask`` properly) using ``photutils``. But currently I am stuck at the very first step... I can't just sum or combine the apertures as I sometimes do for astropy models. I think there should be simple workaround, but couldn't figure out so far.
Do you have any idea?
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start with the linked TRIPPY tutorial and photutils' existing Aperture classes; inspect how their masks are produced and whether the current API supports combining shapes. Done means documenting or enabling a supported way to construct a pillbox-shaped aperture from two circles and a rectangle, with overlapping regions handled as intended.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- data
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100