[AstroPy] WCS creation

[Matt Hilton]

Hi Stefano, Martin, I'm afraid it doesn't, i.e., there is nothing in 
astLib to fit objects in an image to find a WCS. I use SCAMP 
(http://www.astromatic.net/software/scamp) for this sort of problem 
these days.

Cheers,
Matt.

On 04/11/14 07:57, Stefano Covino wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> it is not part of astropy, but the astLib package (http://astlib.sourceforge.net) I think allows you to do what you need.
>
> Bye,
>    Stefano
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>> Il giorno 03/nov/2014, alle ore 22:45, Martin Beroiz <martinberoiz at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>>
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> I have an image for which I have the RA-Dec information for some sources along with the pixel location.
>>>  From that info, I want to create a WCS object with astropy preferably.
>> Is there a simple way to do that? I read the docs for the WCS class but it seems it only manipulates WCS but won’t create one from the information on a few stars.
>>
>> Basically, I’m looking for a python equivalent of STARAST for IDL
>> http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftp/pro/astrom/starast.pro
>>
>> Is there a built-in way to do this with astropy or affiliated package?
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>> M.
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