==Installation Instructions==
(These instructions should be identical '''NB. If you use the TEA-Phot code to produce results for a Linux or Mac environment and a minimum system requirement is Python 3.7 or laterscientific publication, we ask that you please adhere to the citation requests of the developers that are on their main repository page (link below).'''
*These instructions should be identical for a Linux or Mac environment and Python 3.7 or a later version is recommended.
*TEA-Phot can be directly downloaded from [https://bitbucket.org/DominicBowman/tea-phot here] or the repository can quickly be cloned through the following command in the terminal:
git clone https://bitbucket.org/DominicBowman/tea-phot.git
Note: If you use the TEA-Phot code to produce results for a scientific publication, we ask you to please adhere to the citation requests of the developers that are on their main repository page (link above).
* TEA-Phot requires only four additional Python modules. To install (if not already) run the following command in the terminal:
pip3 install numpy matplotlib sep astropy
=="How-to" Instructions and Tips==
('''NB: . TEA-phot currently only supports SHOC data (incl. flats and bias files) in a cube format).'''
* To reduce and extract photometry from SHOC using TEA-phot, in the terminal navigate to the folder that contains the '''TEA-Phot.py''' file.* To display basic usage and optiinal optional arguments run:
python3 TEA-Phot.py -h
* A typical example to reduce and extract photomery from SHOC data would be something like this:
python3 TEA-Phot.py SAAO SHOC name_of_data_cube.fits --image_dir /path/to/data_cube/ --flat name_of_flat_cube.fits --flat_dir /path/to/flat_cube/ --bias name_of_bias_cube --bias_dir /path/to/bias_cube/ --out_dir /path/to/output_files_plots/ --do_plot True --source_sigma 2.0
* Wait for window to appear and select target and comparison star with mouse-clicks.
* Follow further prompts from the pipeline for inputs (aperture size etc.) in the terminal.
Note: TEA-phot will NOT do bias and flat field corrections if not BOTH flat AND bias cubes are supplied.