Tutorials

Interactive Jupyter notebooks demonstrating tetra3rs workflows.

Note

These notebooks are executed during the documentation build using real TESS FITS images and the Hipparcos catalog. To run them locally, download the test data — see Installation.

Available Tutorials

Basic Plate Solving

Demonstrates the full plate-solving pipeline on a single TESS Full Frame Image:

• Loading a FITS image and extracting centroids
• Solving with iterative distortion calibration (multiple passes)
• Comparing solved coordinates against FITS WCS headers
• Visualizing matched stars overlaid on the image

Multi-Image Camera Calibration

Demonstrates multi-image camera calibration using 10 TESS images from the same CCD:

• Solving multiple images with shared camera parameters
• Iterative calibration passes with progressively tighter match radius and higher polynomial order
• Achieving sub-10″ RMSE and sub-3″ agreement with FITS WCS
• Visualization of matched centroids across all images