The LSST Science Pipelines

The LSST Science Pipelines enable optical and near-infrared astronomy in the big data era. We are building the Science Pipelines for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), but our command line task and Python API can be extended for any optical or near-infrared dataset.

• Join us on the LSST Community forum, community.lsst.org
• Fork our code on GitHub at https://github.com/lsst
• Report issues in JIRA
• Learn more about LSST Data Management by visiting http://dm.lsst.org

The current release is 12.0. See what’s new in the Release Notes.

Getting Started

• Installing the LSST Science Pipelines
• Known Issues
• Release Notes
• Characterization Metric Report

See also:

• DM Developer Guide, developer.lsst.io, comprehensively documents DM development practices, including Science Pipelines development.
• The API Reference is currently available from our legacy Doxygen server.