QUERY-STARKD(1)

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💫 QUERY-STARKD(1) 💫

okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for query-starkd, from the astrometry.net fam 🫶 it lives in section 1 of the manual, and it's giving "search index files for stars near a given point on the sky" energy ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

query-starkd — search index files for stars near a given point on the sky 🔭⭐

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

query-starkd [options] star-kdtree-file

so like, you hand it a star-kdtree-file and it goes looking, no cap 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -o file — write an RA-DEC-list FITS table out to file. the default is literally to print ASCII to stdout, so if you don't pass this, enjoy your terminal soup 😭
  • -r ra — RA, in degrees. that's right ascension bestie, we're doing astronomy 🌈
  • -d dec — DEC, in degrees. declination, the other half of the sky-coordinate duo 💜
  • -R radius — radius, in degrees. how far around that point you wanna look 👑
  • -t col — tag along column. just one column, lowkey tagging along 🎀
  • -T — tag along all the columns. go big or go home, main character energy fr fr 🔥
  • -I — print indices too. if you want the receipts, here they are 💀
  • -v — +verbose. more talking, more detail, more lore 🗣️✨

🦋 AUTHOR 🦋

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

💖 SEE ALSO 💖

http://astrometry.net — go click around, iykyk 🌐🌸

and that's the whole vibe, bestie ✨ this was version 0.56, dated July 2015, brought to you by astrometry.net — stay starry, mwah 💅💖

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