Re: Updating RA/DEC fits headers with true location?

[Robert Creager <Robert_Creager@LogicalChaos.org>]

When grilled further on (Tue, 24 Aug 2004 07:50:07 -0700),
Arne Henden <aah@nofs.navy.mil> confessed:

> It sounds like you are one step earlier, though; having matched
> a set of stars with known RA,DEC and with CCD x,y how do you
> determine the transformation?  I'd suggest looking at the
> astrometry chapter in Berry/Burnell, The Handbook of Astrnomical
> Image Processing, Willmann-Bell.  Good book to own in any case.
> There is a nice set of routines in slalib to do the math.
> Arne

About once a year, I run across a problem that is solved in that book, which I
have had for a few years now.  Then I go and re-read a bunch of sections, and
promptly forget about it...

Thanks for the reminder :-)

Cheers,
Rob

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