ASTROMETRY-ENGINE(1)

📦 version 0.98, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, fedora 43, fedora 44, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ ASTROMETRY-ENGINE ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the astrometry.net corner of the manual, page one of one, and honestly? she's a baddie. this is ASTROMETRY-ENGINE(1), and we're gonna get you fully caught up. no cap.

💫 NAME 💫

astrometry-engine — figure out where a list of stars actually is on the sky. like, the whole point. the main character task. 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

astrometry-engine [options] file [...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea: this thing does the actual work of identifying where your list of stars is on the sky. the real labor. the invisible backbone. it's not out here taking credit either — it gets run by solve-field, which is basically its manager. it just shows up, does the math, slays. 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

every single flag, accounted for, not one skipped, because we do NOT do half-finished lists in this house:

  • -h, --help — print help. your little "what do I do" button. 🫶
  • -v, --verbose — be verbose. she talks more. narrating her whole life.
  • -c, --config file — use this config file. the default is "/etc/astrometry.cfg", and if you pass "none" you get no config file at all, which is giving feral. 🙈
  • -d, --base-dir dir — set the base directory for all the output filenames. everything gets filed under here.
  • -C, --cancel file — quit solving if this file shows up. like a little "we're so over" note you leave on the counter. 💀
  • -s, --solved file — write to this file when a field gets solved. a tiny victory journal. 🎀
  • -E, --to-stderr — send log messages to stderr. take the chatter over there.
  • -f, --inputs-from file — read input filenames from the given file, and "-" means stdin. classic.
  • -i, --index file(s) — use the given index files, in addition to any specified in the config file. put it in quotes if you want wildcards, eg: "-i 'index-*.fits'". so extra. so valid. ✨
  • -p, --in-parallel — run the index files in parallel. multitasking icon behavior. 🔥
  • -D, --data-log file file — log data to the given filename.

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

the Astronomy.net team made this. principal investigators are David W. Hogg (NYU) and Dustin Lang (CMU). kings, honestly. 👑

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

http://astrometry.net

and that's the whole page, bestie. version 0.56, dated July 2015, from astrometry.net — old but absolutely still ate. go solve some fields. 🌟

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