It would be useful to combine photutils.detection.IRAFStarFinder's ability to provide the fwhm of stars to the radius parameter of photutils.aperture.CircularAperture to construct a set of apertures, which can then be processed by photutils.aperture.aperture_photometry to yield the aperture_sum.
Unfortunately the CircularAperture only accepts singular floats. Is there a better aperture suited for this task?
- https://photutils.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api/photutils.detection.DAOStarFinder.html#photutils.detection.DAOStarFinder
- https://photutils.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api/photutils.detection.IRAFStarFinder.html
- https://photutils.readthedocs.io/en/stable/_modules/photutils/aperture/circle.html#CircularAperture
- https://photutils.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api/photutils.aperture.aperture_photometry.html