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Astrometry turns a list of star positions into a pixel-to-sky transformation (WCS)
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Optionally download only astrometry index files for a specific part of the sky. #8

Open juanep97 opened 1 year ago

juanep97 commented 1 year ago

It would be nice to be able to optionally download only the index files required to perform the astrometry of a given part of the sky. That way, we could reduce the download time and the storage needed to perform some tests (e.g. in CI actions).

As far as I know, right now the module tries to download all files for the selected series and scales (and it tries

Do you think this is feasible? I will try to look on how to do it to contribute, but if anyone can give me some guidelines on how this might be implemented, I would be thankful.

alexw-im commented 1 year ago

AFAIK only some catalogs at smaller FOVs are split up into separate healpixes in separate .fits files. I imagine you mean "I know my solution is in 4200-12.fits so just get that one"?

I wonder how astrometry itself does this when given a location hint? I've only worked with wider FOVs than get split up into healpixes, and thus I only ever get speedup improvements from scale hints rather than location hints.