IMWCS USNO-A2.0 Catalog Example Image

This galaxy image, taken by Norman Grogin on the Mt. Hopkins 1.2-meter telescope, will be used to demonstrate how a world coordinate system can be fit using imwcs by matching the stars shown here with those in the USNO-A2.0 Catalog.

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This image was made using the command 
imstar -r 15 -q o -d testx90m.sex testx90m.fits

which wrote the PROS regions file image testx90m.reg
which was plotted over the image with

saoimage -reg testx90m.reg testx90m