[AstroPy] WCS creation

[Megan Sosey]

This is a throw back, but if you haven't found anything and have IRAF
installed,  I used to use imcoords in IRAF (agetim to get fits images from
DSS regions if needed) in combination with the USNO-A2 catalog (or
similar) to fit the WCS for ground based images with no information. Use
imcoords.ccamp to compute the plate solution and then feed that to
imcoords.ccsetwcs

cheers
megan 

-----Original Message--
From: Martin Beroiz <martinberoiz at gmail.com>
Reply-To: Astronomical Python mailing list <astropy at scipy.org>
Date: Monday, November 3, 2014 4:45 PM
To: Astronomical Python mailing list <astropy at scipy.org>
Subject: [AstroPy] WCS creation

>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 won¹t create one from the
>information on a few stars.
>
>Basically, I¹m 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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