The LSST Butler

 Finally making some progress interacting with a mock LSST repository using the Butler. butler.get('calexp', ...) It works! Retrieving calibrated exposures, checking metadata... It's complex, abstracting away the file system, but I can see how powerful it is for managing petabytes of data. Still feels a bit like black magic though.

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