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Astrometry engine aims to create correct, standards-compliant astrometric
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meta data for every useful astronomical image ever taken, past and future,
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in any state of archival disarray.
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The engine will take any image and return the astrometry world coordinate
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system (WCS) -- i.e., a standards-based description of the (usually
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nonlinear) transformation between image coordinates and sky coordinates --
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with absolutely no "false positives" (but maybe some "no answers"). It
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will do its best, even when the input image has no -- or totally incorrect
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-- meta-data.
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WWW: http://www.astrometry.net/
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