WCSTools: Image Astrometry Toolkit
Abstract
WCSTools is a package of programs and a library of utility subroutines for setting and using the world coordinate systems (WCS) in the headers of the most common astronomical image formats, FITS and IRAF .imh, to relate image pixels to sky coordinates. In addition to dealing with image WCS information, WCSTools has extensive catalog search, image header manipulation, and coordinate and time conversion tasks. This software is all written in very portable C, so it should compile and run on any computer with a C compiler.
- Publication:
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Astrophysics Source Code Library
- Pub Date:
- September 2011
- Bibcode:
- 2011ascl.soft09015M
- Keywords:
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- Software;
- NASA