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.

The latest release is 14.0: learn what’s new.

Installation

Recommended installation path:

Alternative distributions and installation methods:

To install the LSST Simulation software, such as MAF, follow the LSST Simulations documentation.

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