astropy/astropy-api — pull request #5 by astrofrog (2012-12-05 11:00:13+00:00)
Title: Proposed Photometry API

As discussed at the Astropy coordination meeting at STScI (https://github.com/astropy/astropy/wiki/Minutes-for-AstroPy-Meeting-2012), having the ability to do photometry within Astropy would be a great feature.

The attached document presents a proposed API for photometry in Astropy. Photometry functionality is currently being developed in photutils (http://github.com/astropy/photutils) but we intend that this would eventually be merged in to ``astropy.photometry``.

At this time, we solicit comments from the Astropy developer community about this proposed user API. Please let us know if any crucial functionality is missing, or if you think the API could be improved or clarified.

Please note: unless they have a direct impact on the user API, implementation details should **not** be discussed at this stage.

This document was prepared by @astrofrog, @kbarbary, @bretonr, and @stargaser, and has already been through several iterations before the current version.