Visualizing Tables and Catalogs

Tables can be uploaded to the Firefly server with FireflyClient.upload_file(), and displayed in a table viewer component with FireflyClient.show_table(). The default is to overlay symbols for each row of the table (is_catalog=True) if the table contains recognizable celestial coordinates.

tval = fc.upload_file('m31-2mass-2412-row.tbl')
fc.show_table(file_on_server=tval, tbl_id='m31-table')

If it is desired to overlay the table on an image, or to make plots from it, without showing the table in the viewer, use FireflyClient.fetch_table():

fc.fetch_table(file_on_server=tval, tbl_id='invisible-table')

If the table does not contain celestial coordinates recognized by Firefly, the image overlay will not appear. BUt if you specifically do not want the table overlaid on the image, is_catalog=False can be specified:

fc.show_table(file_on_server=tval, tbl_id='2mass-tbl', is_catalog=False)