maayane / catsHTM

A tool for fast accessing and cross-matching large astronomical catalogs
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Is there a sample for converting other catalogues to catsHTM format? #4

Open fockez opened 3 years ago

fockez commented 3 years ago

The catsHTM is excellent for catalogue searching for photometry calibration. But when I doing bright star crossmatching, I found that no catalogue can provide bright star sdss magnitude. The bright end is about 9 magnitude for APASS which is the main source of several other catalogue. After searching, there is a ATLAS-REFCAT2 catalogue compiled by Tonry published at 2018. They have small telescopes called pathfinder, which can cover the bright end of the sky. Also it includes PanSTARRS DR1, ATLAS re-flattened APASS, SkyMapper DR1, APASS DR9, Tycho-2, and the Yale Bright Star Catalog. It is a great help for photometry calibration in some cases. So I want to convert the catalogue to catsHTM format. Is there python tool for doing this? Or some sample that can be referencing. Thanks.