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| SCAT CGI-BIN Help Message |
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Version 3.0 and later of scat added this help response when used as a catalog server. More complete descriptions are available here.
http://server/cgi-bin/scat?helpreturns
Web catalog searching using WCSTools scat 3.0.4, 14 September 2001, Doug Mink SAO
Results will be returned as a tab-separated Starbase table
Enter a sequence of keyword=value, separated by &, in one line
Help at http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/wcstools/scat/
keyword value description
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catalog gsc (HST GSC), ua2 (USNO-A2.0), gsc2 (GSC II),
gsca (GSC-ACT), ty2 (Tycho-2), tmc (2MASS PSC),
act (USNO ACT), usa2 (USNO-SA2.0), ppm, sao, etc.
ra right ascension in degrees or hh:mm:ss.sss
dec declination in degrees or [+/-]dd:mm:ss.sss
sys coordinate system (B1950, J2000, Ecliptic, Galactic
outsys output coordinate system if not same as above
nstar maximum number of stars to be returned
rad search radius in arcseconds or dd:mm:ss.sss
(negate for square box)
dra search halfwidth in RA arcseconds or dd:mm:ss.sss
ddec search halfheight in Dec arcseconds or dd:mm:ss.sss
sort dist distance from search center
ra right ascension
dec declination
mag magnitude (brightest first)
none no sort
epoch output epoch in fractional years
equinox output equinox in fractional years
format col output coordinates hh:mm:ss dd:mm:ss
deg output coordinates in degrees
rad output coordinates in radians
min minimum magnitude
max maximum magnitude
num range of catalog numbers (n-nxn or n,n,n)
help List scat web parameters (this list)
version Return scat version
band Return list of HST GSC bandpass codes
class Return list of HST GSC object class codes
comhelp Return list of scat command line arguments