Welcome to the mirar documentation!

mirar is a modular, flexible, open-source code to reduce analyse and astronomy images, built using python 3.10. It was created by Robert Stein and Viraj Karambelkar (see everyone who contributed at Contributors).

  • How does mirar work? Check out About.

  • How is mirar designed? See Design Philosophy.

  • How can you install mirar? You can find instructions at Installation or Docker Integration.

  • How can you use mirar? Have a look at Usage, where there is a guide with examples.

  • Want to use mirar for your own telescope? Great! Have a look at our Contributing Guide. This also describes what to do if you find a bug or want to request a new feature.

  • What does x piece of mirar do? See the full documentation at mirar.

  • Want to which configurations are available for a pipeline, and what they do? Check out Pipeline Configurations.

If you make use of mirar in your research, please cite the version using the DOI provided by Zenodo:

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