WCSTools programs

SCAT CGI-BIN Help Message

Telescope Data Center
(also for sact, sgsc, siras, sppm, ssao, stmc, sty2, sua2, and susa2)

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?help
returns
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
-------  ------------------------------------------------
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

Telescope Data Center

Last updated 14 September 2001 by
Doug Mink dmink@cfa.harvard.edu