Program for analyzing shadows from Cassini images
Ring moons of Saturn
This packages/program was created for my bachelor’s thesis for the Astronomy department at University of Oulu, Finland
It consists of a reader for Vicar Image files and a viewer for analyzing images. The purpose is to extract shadow data from the images and analyze shadow contrast.
Info
Needs Cassini mission kernels to provide mission data
Not here since uncompressed 37Gb or compressed 16Gb
Uses NASA NAIF Spice which is used through
SpiceyPy wrapper
Parses VICAR2 file format.
Modules
VicarUI – viewer and analysis for images
VicarUtil – reading images
Easiest to install with pip install -e vicarutil and pip install -e vicarui in a Python virtual environment.
PyCharm is highly recommended if