NAME

hpsplit - Split a list of FITS tables into healpix tiles

SYNOPSIS

hpsplit [options] input-FITS-catalog [...]

-o pattern: Output filename pattern (with %i printf-pattern)
-r column: Name of RA column in FITS table (default RA)
-d column: Name of DEC column in FITS table (default DEC)
-n Nside: Healpix Nside. Default is 1
-m margin: Add a margin of this many degrees around the healpixes; default 0
-g: Gzip'd inputs
-c name: Copy given column name to the output files
-t dir: Use the given temp dir; default is /tmp
-b file: Save the filenumber->filename map in this file; enables writing backreferences too
-v: +verbose

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