pixmappy: Python interface to gbdes astrometry solutions
Abstract
pixmappy provides a Python interface to gbdes pixel map (astrometry) solutions. It reads the YAML format astrometry solutions produced by gbdes (ascl:2210.011) and issues a PixelMap instance, which is a map from one 2d coordinate system ("pixel") to another ("world") 2d system. A PixelMap instance can be used as a function mapping one (or many) coordinate pairs. An inverse method does reverse mapping, and the local jacobian of the map is available also. The type of mapping that can be expressed is very flexible, and PixelMaps can be compounded into chains of tranformations.
- Publication:
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Astrophysics Source Code Library
- Pub Date:
- October 2022
- Bibcode:
- 2022ascl.soft10012B
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- Software