wcs_from_points

gwcs.wcstools.wcs_from_points(xy, world_coordinates, fiducial, projection=<Sky2Pix_Gnomonic()>, degree=4, polynomial_type='polynomial')[source]

Given two matching sets of coordinates on detector and sky, compute the WCS.

Parameters:

xy : tuple of 2 ndarrays

Points in the input cooridnate frame - x, y inputs.

world_coordinates : tuple of 2 ndarrays

Points in the output coordinate frame. The order matches the order of xy.

fiducial_point : SkyCoord

A fiducial point in the output coordinate frame.

projection : Projection

A projection type. One of the projections in projcode.

degree : int

Degree of Polynpomial model to be fit to data.

polynomial_type : str

one of “polynomial”, “chebyshev”, “legendre”
Returns:

wcsobj : WCS

a WCS object for this observation.

Notes

This function implements the following algorithm: world_coordinates are transformed to a projection plane using the specified projection. A polynomial fits xy and the projected coordinates. The fitted polynomials and the projection transforms are combined into a tranform from detector to sky. The input coordinate frame is set to detector. The output coordinate frame is initialized based on the frame in the fiducial.