l, -cpulimit seconds Give up solving after the specified number of seconds of CPU time -r, -resort Sort the star brightnesses by background-subtracted flux the default is objs int Cut the source list to have this many items (after sorting, ifĪpplicable). ra and -dec -d, -depth number or range Number of field objects to look at, or range of numbers 1 is theīrightest star, so '-d 10' or '-d 1-10' mean look at 3 RA, -ra RA RA of field center for search, format: degrees or hh:mm:ss -4 DEC, -dec DEC DEC of field center for search, format: degrees or hh:mm:ss -5 degrees, -radius degrees Only search in indexes within 'radius' of the field center given by This option implies -use-source-extractor. Note that you can giveĬommand line args here too (but put them in quotes), eg: -source-extractor-path 'source-extractor -DETECT_TYPE CCD'. 'source-extractor', assumed to be in your PATH.

source-extractor-path file Use the given path to the Source Extractor executable. Note that CATALOG_NAME andĬATALOG_TYPE values will be over-ridden by command-line values. (default: HUGE_VAL) -use-source-extractor Use Source Extractor rather than built-in image2xy to find sources -source-extractor-config file Use the given Source Extractor config file. Solve (default: 1e6) -odds-to-solve odds Odds ratio at which to consider a field solved (default: 1e9) -odds-to-reject odds Odds ratio at which to reject a hypothesis (default: 1e-100) -odds-to-stop-looking odds Odds ratio at which to stop adding stars when evaluating a hypothesis

'degwidth', 'degw', 'dw' width of the image, in degrees (default) 'arcminwidth', 'amw', 'aw' width of the image, in arcminutes 'arcsecperpix', 'app' arcseconds per pixel 'focalmm' 35-mm (width-based) equivalent focal length -8, -parity pos/ neg Only check for matches with positive/negative parity (default: tryīoth) -c, -code-tolerance distance Matching distance for quads (default: 0.01) -E, -pixel-error pixels For verification, size of pixel positional error (default: 1) -q, -quad-size-min fraction Minimum size of quads to try, as a fraction of the smaller imageĭimension, default: 0.1 -Q, -quad-size-max fraction Maximum size of quads to try, as a fraction of the image hypotenuse,ĭefault 1.0 -odds-to-tune-up odds Odds ratio at which to try tuning up a match that isn't good enough to axy file Output filename for augment xy list (axy) -temp-axy Write 'augmented xy list' (axy) file to a temp file -timestamp Add timestamps to log messages -7, -no-delete-temp Don't delete temp files (for debugging) -L, -scale-low scale Lower bound of image scale estimate -H, -scale-high scale Upper bound of image scale estimate -u, -scale-units units In what units are the lower and upper bounds? Choices: The index -just-augment Just write the augmented xylist files don't run astrometry-engine. (requires wcs2kml) -i, -scamp file Create image object catalog for SCAMP -n, -scamp-config file Create SCAMP config file snippet -U, -index-xyls file Output filename for xylist containing the image coordinate of stars from 'none' to not create this file -Z, -kmz file Create KMZ file for Google Sky. This assumes single-field input files -fits-image assume the input files are FITS images -N, -new-fits file Output filename of the new FITS file containing the WCS header skip-solved Skip input files for which the 'solved' output file already exists NOTE: continue Don't overwrite output files if they already exist continue a previous overwrite Overwrite output files if they already exist -K, no-plots Don't create any plots of the results -plot-scale scale Scale the plots by this factor (eg, 0.25) -plot-bg file Set the background image to use for plots (JPEG) -G, files-on-stdin Read filenames to solve on stdin, one per line -p, Repeat for even more verboseness -D, -dir directory Place all output files in the specified directory -o, -out file Name the output files with this base name -b, -backend-config file Use this config file for the 'astrometry-engine' program -config file Use this config file for the 'astrometry-engine' program -batch Run astrometry-engine once, rather than once per input file -f, OPTIONS ¶ -h, -help Print the help message -v, -verbose Be more chatty. Image has no or totally incorrect meta data. Of the (usually nonlinear) transformation between image coordinates and skyĬoordinates with absolutely no “false positives” (but maybe The astrometry engine will take any image and return theĪstrometry world coordinate system (WCS), ie a standards-based description 'wget' or 'curl' program will be used to retrieve the You can specify or ftp:// URLs instead of filenames.

Main high-level command-line user interface for Solve-field - Main high-level command-line user interface.

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