[AstroPy] Some Feedbacks about Astropy

Adam Ginsburg adam.g.ginsburg at gmail.com
Tue Jul 1 10:07:58 EDT 2014


On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Adam Ginsburg <adam.g.ginsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 1. I find no tools to align two images, i.e. to uniform their astrometry, pixel scale, image size and etc.  hastrom.pro (http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftp/pro/astrom/hastrom.pro) is a good example to perform such a task.
>
> I've written a tool to do that:
> https://github.com/keflavich/FITS_tools/blob/master/FITS_tools/hcongrid.py
> ...I think it does what hastrom does, not hcongrid, which means I
> should change the name.
>
> Otherwise, you can use the montage wrapper:
> http://www.astropy.org/montage-wrapper/

P.S. pyast can do it too, and the corresponding wrapper is here:
https://github.com/keflavich/FITS_tools/blob/master/FITS_tools/hcongrid.py#L222

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Adam Ginsburg
Fellow, European Southern Observatory
http://www.adamgginsburg.com/



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