Make ``Aperture`` objects support arrays of apertures

This should be simple enough following astropy core examples, e.g. SkyCoord or Time

[larrybradley]

I don’t think we’re ever going to add this. 😃 One can now input a list of apertures to aperture_photometry to do multi-aperture photometry.

[kbarbary]

Yeah I was thinking of using the iterator API when I suggested deferring broadcasting to the function call. Using broadcast_arrays in the initializer seems fine too. On Aug 20, 2014 10:48 AM, “Christoph Deil” [e-mail] wrote:

[image: 👍] to add back broadcasting.

I think the main reason it was removed was because there was a bug with some version of numpy (#29 https://github.com/astropy/photutils/issues/29) and it wasn’t documents a lot, and no-one cared enough to fix / document it properly at the time.

IMO doing it in the aperture constructor would also be OK … fails early and give the user a simple Traceback. But storing the raw inputs and only checking that they broadcast in the constructor should be OK, too.

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