FIT-WCS(1)

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

💫 fit-wcs — the glow-up your coordinates deserve 💫

okay bestie, welcome to fit-wcs, a lil tool from the astrometry.net family (manual section 1, for the record, iykyk) 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

fit-wcs — fit a transformation from x,y and matching RA,DEC coordinates 🌸

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

fit-wcs [options] -x file -r file
fit-wcs [options] -c file

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the vibe 💅 you hand it a list of x,y coordinates, you hand it the matching RA,Dec coordinates, and it fits a transformation and spits out a WCS file. that's it. that's the whole serve. no cap. 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -x file — the XYls input file 🍓
  • -X name — the X column name (default: FIELD_X)
  • -Y name — the Y column name (default: FIELD_Y)
  • -r file — the RDls input file 🌈
  • -R name — the RA column name (default: INDEX_RA)
  • -D name — the Dec column name (default: INDEX_DEC)
  • -c file — the correspondences file 🎀
  • -o file — the WCS output file
  • -s sip — SIP order (default is a WCS TAN solution, not SIP) ⭐
  • -W width — image width (default: max X position; used for SIP)
  • -H height — image height (default: max Y position; used for SIP)
  • -C — set CRPIX to be the center of the field; SIP only 🔥
  • -v — verbose 👀

✨ AUTHOR ✨

The Astrometry.net team. Principal investigators are David W. Hogg (NYU) and Dustin Lang (CMU). iconic behavior fr fr 💖

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

http://astrometry.net

version 0.56, July 2015, brought to you by astrometry.net — and that's the whole page bestie, go fit some WCS 💜🫶✨

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