Open crawfordsm opened 10 years ago
Try Astrometry.net.
I've wrote a little wrapper to do this calibration with that program in my own reducing facility. I will upload it in github and post here.
That would be great @juliotux -- thanks for offering to help.
This could be taken care/integrating in with this pull request to astroquery: https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/pull/521
Some useful other projects that should be bootstrapped to be used here: https://github.com/spacetelescope/tweakwcs https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/pull/1163
Another example would be https://github.com/toros-astro/astroalign, which is an astropy affiliated package.
Astrometry.net support has been added to astroquery: https://astroquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/astrometry_net/astrometry_net.html
Calculate the astrometric solution for the images by comparing objects in the field to sources of known position