Astrometry With IRAF

José Luis Doreste Caballero wrote on Oct 20, 2004

Please, I need to make astrometry, Is there any package to do this with 
IRAF?

Best wishes, Jose L Doreste

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Rik Hill wrote on Oct 20, 2004

Yes, try DAOPHOT and it's associated packages. -Rik

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Rik Hill wrote on Oct 20, 2004

Sorry, I misread your email. I thought you wanted PHOtometry. -R

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Francisco Valdes wrote on Oct 22, 2004

Jos� Luis Doreste Caballero wrote:
> Please, I need to make astrometry, Is there any package to do this with 
> IRAF?
> 
> Best wishes, Jose L Doreste
> 


There are many steps in doing astrometry and there are a variety of 
tools in IRAF to do these steps.  There are tasks for centroiding stars 
and fitting coordinate functions.  The main tools to mention are CCMAP, 
FINDER, MSCTPEAK.  There is no single package though the IMCOORDS 
package would be the closest.  There is also no cookbook, which I think 
is one of the things you are hoping for. The only other advice I can 
give you is to look at

http://iraf.noao.edu/projects/ccdmosaic/astrometry/astrom.html


Yours,
Frank Valdes

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José Luis Doreste Caballero wrote on Oct 25, 2004

Thank you very much, Frank

JL Doreste

irafnet@noao.edu wrote:

>Jos� Luis Doreste Caballero wrote:
>  
>
>>Please, I need to make astrometry, Is there any package to do this with 
>>IRAF?
>>
>>Best wishes, Jose L Doreste
>>
>>    
>>
>
>
>There are many steps in doing astrometry and there are a variety of 
>tools in IRAF to do these steps.  There are tasks for centroiding stars 
>and fitting coordinate functions.  The main tools to mention are CCMAP, 
>FINDER, MSCTPEAK.  There is no single package though the IMCOORDS 
>package would be the closest.  There is also no cookbook, which I think 
>is one of the things you are hoping for. The only other advice I can 
>give you is to look at
>
>http://iraf.noao.edu/projects/ccdmosaic/astrometry/astrom.html
>
>
>Yours,
>Frank Valdes
>
>  
>

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Last post on Oct 25, 2004