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Find Tycho 2 Catalog Stars in Image Region
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imty2 is a link to the
WCSTools
imcat
utility which finds all of the
Tycho 2 Reference Catalog
objects in a FITS or IRAF image and lists their sky
and image positions. World coordinate system (WCS) information must be
present in the image header to describe, in a standard way, the relationship
between sky coordinates and image pixels.
This information is used by the program to find the region in the sky to
search and to transform right ascension and declination sky coordinate pairs
to image coordinate (X,Y) pairs. Output is sent to a file called
filename.tycho2 and to standard output if the -v flag
is set.
The Tycho 2 number is the HST GSC zone
followed by the sequence number of the star within the RA-sorted zone.
This number may change with each release of the ACT catalog.
Set the environment variable ACT_PATH to the directory where the root
directory of the CDROM is located. If the environment variable is not set,
the default is to look at /data/ty2.
The minimum command line is
imty2 FITS or IRAF filename
The same effect can be obtained by running
imcat -c ty2 FITS or IRAF filename
Examples
- List the 10 brightest Tycho 2 Catalog stars in a FITS image
- List the Tycho 2 Catalog stars in a FITS image to a file
- Plot Tycho 2 Catalog stars onto a FITS image
