I use four primary codes for installing WCS into FITS image headers. incorporate four wcsf_ codes. Here I show quick examples of how to use this codes.m
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Step 1 - Get a rough wcs zeropoint
% cat list.Most_Current
./local_red/FIXUP/20190217T122456.6_acm_sci.fits
% wcsf_rough list.Most_Current N
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Step 2 - Confirm the wcs is approximately correct
% cat list.Most_Current
./local_red/ROUGHWCS/20190217T122456.6_acm_sci.fits
NOTE: Unless a local version of the image is present at run time, this
routine will process the version from ROUGHWCS and deposit the
new version(s) into VISCAT.
% wcsf_viscat list.Most_Current N
The purpose here is to see the roughly calibrated image with USNO-B1.0
stars overplotted. If most of the plotted sources lie on top of detected
stars in our acm image, then we have confirmed the validity of our rough
WCS solution.
At thsi stage, our current image is in:
./local_red/VISCAT/20190217T122456.6_acm_sci.fits
Finally, it is worth noting that the USNO catalog for this image and a png
image file of the field are also in this archival subdirectory.
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Step 3 - Create an image catalog.
First, we want to specify that we'll use the viscat version of the
as input to the moments catalog code:
% cat list.wcs0
./local_red/FIXUP/20190217T122456.6_acm_sci.fits
% image_fullpath_list list.wcs0 VISCAT list.wcs1 N
% cat list.wcs1
/home/sco/tmp1/w1/local_red/VISCAT/20190217T122456.6_acm_sci.fits
Then we run the catalog code:
% wcsf_imgcat list.wcs1 N
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Step 4 - Make the final fit
% cat list.Most_Current
./local_red/FIXUP/20190217T122456.6_acm_sci.fits
% wcsf_final list.wcs1 Y N
Note:
The input image and the initial detection catalog are taken from
the IMGCAT0 archive. The user may elect to build a fresh CDFP
catalog of USNO-B1.0 sources, or a pre-existing version from the
VISCAT archive is extracted.
The final calibrated image is: ./local_red/WCS/20190217T122456.6_acm_sci.fits
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