WCStools

Introduction

WCSTools is a package of programs and a library of utility subroutines for setting and using the world coordinate systems (WCS) in the headers of the most common astronomical image formats, FITS and IRAF .imh, to relate image pixels to sky coordinates. This software is all written in very portable C, so it should compile and run on any computer with a C compiler.

Documentation

See here.

Initialisation

For c/tcsh:
setenv PATH /usr/local/wcstools-3.9.5/bin:${PATH}

For bash:
export PATH=/usr/local/wcstools-3.9.5/bin:${PATH}

Version

Version 3.9.5 was installed on Tuesday, 17 July 2018

Testing

Try typing a program name, eg imwcs

Usage

See documentation

Author, References and Acknowledgements

Publications and acknowledgements.

Rhys Morris

Last modified: Tuesday, 17 July 2018