twirl

twirl is a astrometric plate solving package for Python. It is suited for cases where the Right Ascension and Declination (RA, dec) coordinates of the image center and the field of view is known, computing a World Coordinate System (WCS) based on GAIA reference stars.

Get started

• Installation
• Principle
• Acknowledgement

Tutorial

• WCS plate solving
  • Image and sources
  • Plate solving

Reference

• API
  • compute_wcs()
  • gaia_radecs()
  • find_peaks()