chimera-pverify plugin

Plugin for automatically verify (and correct) the pointing of telescopes using chimera and Astrometry.net https://github.com/astroufsc/chimera.

Usage

Install this plugin and add it as a controller to your chimera.config file. Then, follow the instructions given by chimera-pverify --help.

Installation

This plugins depends of SExtractor http://www.astromatic.net/software/sextractor and Astrometry.net solve-field command line tool working with the necessary astrometry databases.

For more info on installing astrometry.net: http://astrometry.net/use.html

pip install -U git+https://github.com/astroufsc/chimera-pverify.git

Configuration Example

controllers:
  - type: PointVerify
    name: pv
    telescope: /FakeTelescope/fake      # Telescope to verify pointing.
    camera: /FakeCamera/fake            # Camera attached to the telescope.
    filterwheel: /FakeCamera/fake       # Filterwheel, if exists.
    exptime:  10.0                      # Exposure time.
    filter: R                           # Filter to expose.
    max_fields: 100                     # Maximum number of Landlodt fields to use.
    max_tries: 5                        # Maximum number of tries to point the telescope correctly.
    dec_tolerance: 0.0167               # Maximum declination error tolerance (degrees).
    ra_tolerance: 0.0167                # Maximum right ascension error tolerance (degrees).

Contact

For more information, contact us on chimera's discussion list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/chimera-discuss

Bug reports and patches are welcome and can be sent over our GitHub page: https://github.com/astroufsc/chimera-pverify/