WCSTools

ssky2k
SKY2000 Catalog (SKY2K) Search Program

WCSTools programs
ssky2k finds objects in the SKY2000 Catalog within a specified region of the sky and lists their sky positions or lists specific entries in that catalog. It is a symbolic link to scat, and is equivalent to running scat -c sky2k ....

By default, only the brightest 100 objects (or closest 100, if the -s p option is used) are returned. Use the -n option to increase this number.

Output is to standard out, unless the -w flag is set, in which case it goes to objectname.ppm or search.ppm. It is a link to scat This program automatically senses the byte order of the catalog and, if necessary, swaps it to match the byte order of the machine on which it is executing.

Set the environment variable WCS_BINDIR to the directory containing the files sky2kra for searching and sky2k for access by number.

Command Line Arguments

Examples

Search with results to standard output
Search with results to a file
Find closest star
Find stars by number
Match stars in input catalog

Last updated 19 June 2006 by Doug Mink Telescope Data Center