https://github.com/worldwidetelescope/wwt-aligner

The WWT Aligner is a tool to match RGB images (JPEGs, TIFFs, etc) to scientific FITS images and annotate them with spatial information using AVM tags.
https://github.com/worldwidetelescope/wwt-aligner

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The WWT Aligner is a tool to match RGB images (JPEGs, TIFFs, etc) to scientific FITS images and annotate them with spatial information using AVM tags.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/worldwidetelescope/wwt-aligner
• Owner: WorldWideTelescope
• License: mit
• Created: 2021-01-14T16:15:06.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-06-02T17:43:05.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-02-26T22:01:30.090Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 125 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# The AAS WorldWide Telescope Sky Aligner

The [WWT] aligner is a tool to match RGB images (JPEGs, TIFFs, etc) to

scientific FITS images and annotate them with spatial information using AVM

tags.

[WWT]: https://worldwidetelescope.org/home/

The core image-matching algorithm uses the [Astrometry.net][anet] solver. The

WWT Aligner bundles this complex software system inside a [Docker] container and

provides a small “frontend” command-line tool, `wwt-aligner`, that launches it.

[anet]: https://astrometry.net/

[Docker]: https://www.docker.com/

## Installation and Documentation

Installation instructions may be found here:

> https://docs.worldwidetelescope.org/aligner/latest/installation/

The main documentation may be [found here][docs].

[docs]: https://docs.worldwidetelescope.org/aligner/latest/

## Acknowledgments

The development of `wwt-aligner` was sponsored by the Space Telescope Science

Institute.

The AAS WorldWide Telescope (WWT) system is a [.NET Foundation][dnf] project

brought to you by the [American Astronomical Society][aas] (AAS). Work on WWT

has been supported by those organizations, the [National Science

Foundation][nsf], the [Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation][moore], and

[Microsoft][msft]. For more information see [the WWT

Acknowledgments][acknowledgments].

[dnf]: https://dotnetfoundation.org/

[aas]: https://aas.org/

[nsf]: https://www.nsf.gov/

[moore]: https://www.moore.org/

[msft]: https://microsoft.com/

[acknowledgments]: https://worldwidetelescope.org/about/acknowledgments/