pixel_to_skycoord#

astropy.wcs.utils.pixel_to_skycoord(xp, yp, wcs, origin=0, mode='all', cls=None)[source]#

Convert a set of pixel coordinates into a SkyCoord coordinate.

Parameters:
xp, ypfloat or ndarray

The coordinates to convert.

wcsWCS

The WCS transformation to use.

originint

Whether to return 0 or 1-based pixel coordinates.

mode‘all’ or ‘wcs’

Whether to do the transformation including distortions ('all') or only including only the core WCS transformation ('wcs').

clsclass or None

The class of object to create. Should be a SkyCoord subclass. If None, defaults to SkyCoord.

Returns:
coordsSkyCoord subclass

The celestial coordinates. Whatever cls type is.