plot-constellations - Annotates images with constellations
etc.
plot-constellations -w file | -L | -o
file
Annotates images with constellations, bright stars, Messier/NGC
objects, Henry Draper catalog stars, etc.
- -w file
- WCS input file
- -L
- just list the items in the field
- -o file
- image output file; "-" for stdout
- -p
- write PPM output - default is PNG ([-i PPM input file] OR
[-W width -H height] )
- -s scale
- scale image coordinates by this value before plotting.
- -N
- plot NGC objects
- -F fraction
- minimum NGC size, relative to image size (default 0.02)
- -C
- plot constellations
- -B
- plot named bright stars
- -D
- plot HD objects
- -d
- path to HD catalog
- -b N
- just plot the N brightest stars
- -c
- only plot bright stars that have common names.
- -j
- if a bright star has a common name, only print that
- -v
- be verbose
- -n width
- NGC circle width (default 2)
- -f size
- font size.
- -M
- show only NGC/IC and Messier numbers (no common names)
- -G spacing
- Plot RA,Dec grid with specified grid spacing in arcmin.
- -g
r:g:b
- grid color (default 0.2:0.2:0.2)
- -J
- print JSON output to stderr
- -V
- vertical alignment of text labels,
"C"enter/"T"op/"B"ottom: default C
- -O
- horizontal alignment of text labels,
"L"eft/"C"enter/"R"ight, default L
The Astrometry.net team. Principal investigators are David W. Hogg
(NYU) and Dustin Lang (CMU).