WCS-XY2RD(1)

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

✨ WCS-XY2RD ✨

okay bestie, welcome to wcs-xy2rd, part of the astrometry.net manual (section 1, the cool section 💅). This is the little tool that takes your pixel coordinates (x,y) and turns them into sky coordinates (RA,Dec). it's giving ✨coordinate glow-up✨. no cap.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

wcs-xy2rd [options] -w file

that's it, that's the vibe. you hand it a WCS file, you hand it points, it hands you the sky. 🦋

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -w file — the WCS input file. literally the whole reason we're here, bestie. this one's required.
  • -e extension — which FITS HDU number to read the WCS from. default is 0, aka the primary. 🏠
  • -x pixel -y pixel — specify a single point to convert, and the result gets printed to stdout. one point, one moment, main character energy. ⭐
  • -t — just use the TAN projection, even if a SIP extension exists. like, we're keeping it simple today.
  • -L — force WCSlib. WCSlib girlies rise.
  • -T — force WCStools. WCStools stans, this one's for you.
  • -s — print sexigesimal too. yes queen, give us the full RA/Dec serve. 👑
  • -i file — the xyls input file.
  • -o file — the rdls output file.
  • -f index — xyls field index. default: all of them. no picking favourites unless you say so.
  • -X name — the X-column-name.
  • -Y name — the Y-column-name. (yep, capital X and capital Y, they're a matched set 🫶)
  • -v — +verbose. the plus is doing numbers here, that's just how it's written.

💜 AUTHOR 💜

The Astrometry.net team, periodt. Principal investigators are David W. Hogg (NYU) and Dustin Lang (CMU). absolute icons, we stan. 🎀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

and that's the whole page, bestie! this one's from version 0.56, dated July 2015 — yeah she's vintage but she still slays 💅✨ bye ily 🦋

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