BINCAT(1)

✨ BINCAT(1) ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because we're talking about bincat — a User Command, no big deal 💅

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💖 NAME 💖

bincat — literally just AME. that's it. that's the name. short king energy 👑

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

[-v][-a degrees][-p scale][-b ra dec][-j ra dec][-s nx ny] filename

yes she's built different. the brackets go crazy. iykyk 🤭

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what does she DO? she bins a catalog into a FITS image. periodt. that's the whole gig 💖

[-x x y] [-c catname] file.fits ...

and now, the options — every single one, no gatekeeping, we don't do that here 🫶

• -a ang — initial rotation angle, in degrees (default 0). spin her around, bestie 🌀
• -b ra dec — initial center in B1950 (FK4) RA and Dec. old-school coordinates, vintage vibes 🕰️
• -c name — the name of the source catalog to bin 🗂️
• -d — set CDELTn, CROTAn instead of CD matrix. different flavor of WCS plumbing 🧚
• -f num — set the flux scaling factor (number, or 0) 🔥
• -g long lat — initial center in Galactic longitude and latitude 🌌
• -j ra dec — initial center in J2000 (FK5) RA and Dec. the modern sequel ✨
• -mx mag1[,mag2] — Magnitude #x limit(s) — only one set allowed, default none ⚠️
• -o num — output pixel size in bits (FITS BITPIX, default=0) 🎚️
• -p num — initial plate scale in arcsec per pixel (default 0) 📐
• -s num num — size of the image in x and y pixels (default 100x100) 📏
• -t proj — set the FITS CTYPE projection (default TAN) 🗺️
• -v — verbose. she will tell you things 🗣️
• -w file — read WCS information from this FITS file 📖
• -x x y — X and Y coordinates of the reference pixel (default is the center) 🎯
• -z — use AIPS classic projections instead of WCSLIB. throwback mode 🕹️

ngl, that's a LOT of flags, but you got this. read them twice, they're all right there 👑

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and that's the whole page, babe 💜 this one is brought to you by bincat, source EB_SOURCE, dated February 2026 — yes, the future sent us this manpage and she ATE 🌈⭐ slay responsibly, mwah 💋🎀