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astrometry-engine - Identify where a list of stars is on the sky

astrometry-engine [options] file [...]

This does the actual work of identifying where the list of stars is on the sky. It is run by solve-field.

Print help
Be verbose
Use this config file (default: "/etc/astrometry.cfg"); "none" for no config file
Set base directory of all output filenames.
Quit solving if this file appears
Write to this file when a field is solved
Send log message to stderr
Read input filenames from the given file, "-" for stdin
Use the given index files (in addition to any specified in the config file); put in quotes to use wildcards, eg: "-i 'index-*.fits'"
Run the index files in parallel
Log data to the given filename

The Astrometry.net team. Principal investigators are David W. Hogg (NYU) and Dustin Lang (CMU).

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