NAME

astrometry-engine - Identify where a list of stars is on the sky

SYNOPSIS

astrometry-engine [options] file [...]

This does the actual work of identifying where the list of stars is on the sky. It is run by solve-field.

-h, --help: Print help
-v, --verbose: Be verbose
-c, --config file: Use this config file (default: "/etc/astrometry.cfg"); "none" for no config file
-d, --base-dir dir: Set base directory of all output filenames.
-C, --cancel file: Quit solving if this file appears
-s, --solved file: Write to this file when a field is solved
-E, --to-stderr: Send log message to stderr
-f, --inputs-from file: Read input filenames from the given file, "-" for stdin
-i, --index file(s): Use the given index files (in addition to any specified in the config file); put in quotes to use wildcards, eg: "-i 'index-*.fits'"
-p, --in-parallel: Run the index files in parallel
-D, --data-log file file: Log data to the given filename

The Astrometry.net team. Principal investigators are David W. Hogg (NYU) and Dustin Lang (CMU).