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extast3.pro
topextast3
Astrometry
extast3, hdr, result [, delete=delete]
This program is a wrapper procedure to the extast routine in the IDL astronomy user's library. extast3 is designed to handle data cubes, which extast cannot handle. This procedure is used by sky2pix to convert between sky and pixel coordinates in data cubes.
Parameters
- hdr in required
A string array, containing a fits header. The header must describe a 2 or 3 dimensional fits file. If the fits file is 3D, all information related to 2d position on the sky must be contained within the first 2 dimensions of the fits file (in otherwords, the fits axes cannot be rotated such that spatial information lies along the third axis. This would be pretty non-standard, however).
- result
Keywords
- delete in optional
Since result contains a pointer, these should be properly de-allocated at the end of use. Set the delete keyword to free the extast pointer and delete the result variable
SEE ALSO: sky2pix
Author information
- History:
June 2009: Written by Chris Beaumont March 2010: Added input checking. cnb.
File attributes
| Modifcation date: | Mon Mar 22 17:35:13 2010 |
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