Using Catalog GUI in Ginga using Ginga-Glue plugin

[pllim]

Ginga viewer:
http://ginga.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
https://github.com/ejeschke/ginga/

Glue-Ginga plugin:
https://github.com/ejeschke/glue-ginga/

How to use Catalog plugin in Ginga (not well documented yet):
ejeschke/ginga#52
https://github.com/ejeschke/ginga/blob/master/ginga/rv/plugins/Catalogs.py
https://github.com/spacetelescope/stginga/blob/master/stginga/examples/configs/ginga_config.py

Not very sure how to use your custom MAST query in but one possibility is to write your own server class (e.g., see AstropyCatalogServer in https://github.com/ejeschke/ginga/blob/master/ginga/util/catalog.py), utilize MAST API in Astroquery (see http://astroquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/mast/mast.html), and then use that class in ginga_config.py (example given above).

[scfleming]

Thanks! This will be neat to experiment with.

[pllim]

Here are some screen shots of the plugin in action for a cone search of HST Guide Star Catalog 1.2 around selected rectangle for that image shown in the presentation.

p.s. If Qt is giving you headache, Ginga plugin is written in a way that is toolkit-agnostic. In fact, Ginga supports both GTK and Qt.