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.