From 0f4f936e52cf553e5ab9a97946013b98d89bd55e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sarah Steiger <ssteiger@stsci.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2025 15:17:33 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix: return FuncAnimation object in make_offax_psf_movie
 function

---
 src/yieldplotlib/plots/yip_plots.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/yieldplotlib/plots/yip_plots.py b/src/yieldplotlib/plots/yip_plots.py
index e391a3a0..68e5e636 100644
--- a/src/yieldplotlib/plots/yip_plots.py
+++ b/src/yieldplotlib/plots/yip_plots.py
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ def update(frame):
     # Save the animation to file.
     ani.save(save_name, fps=2, writer="ffmpeg")
     plt.close(fig)
+    return ani
 
 
 def plot_core_throughtput(