https://github.com/spacetelescope/tweakwcs

Algorithms for matching and aligning catalogs and for tweaking the WCS so as to minimize catalog mismatch errors
https://github.com/spacetelescope/tweakwcs

astronomy python wcs

Last synced: 8 months ago
JSON representation

Algorithms for matching and aligning catalogs and for tweaking the WCS so as to minimize catalog mismatch errors

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/spacetelescope/tweakwcs
• Owner: spacetelescope
• License: bsd-3-clause
• Created: 2018-04-02T20:55:57.000Z (about 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-04-29T19:30:31.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-29T20:31:33.233Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: astronomy, python, wcs
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://tweakwcs.readthedocs.io
• Size: 715 KB
• Stars: 11
• Watchers: 15
• Forks: 18
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.rst
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.rst
  • License: LICENSE.txt
  • Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
  • Codeowners: .github/CODEOWNERS

Awesome Lists containing this project

README

          
.. image:: https://codecov.io/gh/spacetelescope/tweakwcs/branch/main/graph/badge.svg

  :target: https://codecov.io/gh/spacetelescope/tweakwcs

  :alt: Test coverage status

.. image:: https://readthedocs.org/projects/tweakwcs/badge/?version=latest

    :target: https://tweakwcs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest

    :alt: Documentation Status

.. image:: https://zenodo.org/badge/127811534.svg

    :target: https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.4018234

    :alt: Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.4018234

.. image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/tweakwcs.svg

    :target: https://pypi.org/project/tweakwcs

    :alt: PyPI Status

``tweakwcs`` is a package that provides core algorithms for computing and

applying corrections to ``WCS`` objects such as to minimize mismatch between

image and reference catalogs. Currently only aligning images with ``FITS WCS``

and ``JWST gWCS`` are supported.