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Installation
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Requirements
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While mascara was designed to be used on both Linx and Windows platforms, it still requires some additional packages to run smootly. Those are :
 - 'Numpy' release 18.0 or later
 - 'lmfit <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lmfit/>' release 0.7.4 or higher. This is used for calculating the astrometric solution of the camera system. 
 - 'pyfits <https://pythonhosted.org/pyfits/>' version 3.3 or higher to access all the features of compressed fits format. 
 - 'scipy <http://www.scipy.org/>' version 0.14.0 or higher
 - 'bottleneck <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Bottleneck/>' version 0.7.0 or higher used for its speed
 
Moreover the mascara-intern packages require additionally:
 - 'pandas <http://pandas.pydata.org >' version 0.12.0 or higher

 
Installation
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Once you've got your hand on the mascara-1.0.zip file you can install the package via in command line:

	>>> python setup.py install
	
And hopefully everything goes fine. 

Additional install
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The .zip file includes a light version of the standard stellar catalog used in mascara (StarCat.fits). You can copy that file to your working location in order to load easily stellar coordinates and parameters.