How to obtain asteroid mask files¶
We need to mask the brightest asteroids before we're able to fit the StarScene
. To do this we need to get all the asteroids that are bright. To do this, we can use some functionality inside of scatterbrain
.
Below I use a saved catalog of asteroids in TESS cycle 1.
from scatterbrain.asteroids import get_asteroid_files, get_asteroid_mask
get_asteroid_files('/Users/ch/Projects/PDART/catalogs/first_big_catalog.csv', sectors=1)
This function will find the brightest asteroids, use tess-ephem
to get their ephemerides, and will store them as files inside scatterbrain
for later use.