[AstroPy] Creating a WCS from a list of (x, y, ra, dec)

Thomas Robitaille thomas.robitaille at gmail.com
Wed Apr 20 07:25:22 EDT 2016


Hi Wolfgang,

Just out of curiosity, can you provide an example of how to do this in practice?

Thanks,
Tom



On 20 April 2016 at 10:38, Wolfgang Kerzendorf <wkerzendorf at gmail.com> wrote:
>  You can just use the current WCS implementation and use one of the scipy
> fitters to tweak the parameters.
>
> Cheers,
>     Wolfgang
>
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 at 11:17, Stuart Mumford <stuart at cadair.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I believe this will do what you wish, but it appears not to be finished:
>> https://github.com/spacetelescope/gwcs/pull/42
>>
>>
>> Stuart
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