imstar
Example 1

Find the 10 brightest stars in image test.fts with a world coordinate system for use as a reference catalog by imwcs, immatch, imcat, or scat.
imstar -n 10 -i 5000 test.fts
produces the following in the file test.fts.stars: 
IMAGE   test.fts

EQUINOX 2000.0

PROGRAM IMSTAR 1.1, 24 May 1996 D. Mink SAO

ID      RA              DEC             MAG     X       Y       COUNTS         PEAK

---     ------------    ------------    ------  -----   -----   --------       -----

1        9:55:34.007    +69:03:54.77    0.00    381.4   710.8   12751147.3     31165

2        9:55:03.208    +68:56:22.66    0.11    617.0   74.1    11534140.9     30046

3        9:55:03.182    +68:56:38.14    0.13    617.1   95.9    11297760.7     27751

4        9:55:45.359    +69:01:45.08    1.19    295.9   527.7   4245225.9      30544

5        9:54:42.238    +69:05:44.77    1.50    771.7   867.5   3212286.2      31731

6        9:55:41.600    +69:00:27.99    1.61    324.5   419.1   2905164.4      32449

7        9:54:45.748    +68:56:57.18    2.31    749.4   123.4   1523531.8      30985

8        9:54:31.983    +69:01:25.55    2.50    851.5   502.5   1278977.7      32281

9        9:54:18.712    +69:02:37.89    2.91    951.2   605.2   876370.0       31253

10       9:54:53.258    +69:03:49.30    3.79    689.4   704.2   387974.2       32407

Last updated 23 January 2002 by Jessica Mink

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