Guide to generate image cutouts with DRP outputs

Author: abudlong

stack/plotImageSubtractionCutouts-with-DRP-outputs.rst

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+Generating image cutouts with DRP outputs
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+To generate image cutouts using the `plotImageSubtractionCutouts` task from `analysis_ap` you need to use the
+code listed below.
+
+Note, the code differs from its general implementation when using DRP outputs, since you
+are required to iterate through each of the references individually, retrieve the diaSources (using the
+`goodSeeingDiff_diaSrcTable` not `goodSeeingDiff_diaSrc` to have data in the correct format for this task).
+
+.. code-block:: text
+
+    repo = /repo/main
+    collections = /path/to/your/DRP/collection
+    butler = dafButler.Butler(repo, collections=collections)
+
+    cutoutConfigDrp = PlotImageSubtractionCutoutsConfig()
+    cutoutTaskDrp = PlotImageSubtractionCutoutsTask(
+        config=cutoutConfigDrp, output_path=output
+    )
+
+    data_refs = butler.query_datasets(
+        "goodSeeingDiff_diaSrcTable", where=where, limit=limit
+    )
+
+    for ref in data_refs:
+        try:
+            dv_diaSourceTable = butler.get(ref)
+        except:
+            print(f"Could not load diaSource table for {ref.dataId}")
+            continue
+        else:
+            dv_diaSourceTable["instrument"] = "LSSTComCam"
+            cutoutTaskDrp.run(dv_diaSourceTable, butler)