Astrometry.net: Blind astrometric calibration of arbitrary astronomical images

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1782-1800

  Lang, Dustin ^a,b   Hogg, David W ^c,d   Mierle, Keir ^a,e   Blanton, Michael ^c   Roweis, Sam ^a,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^e GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^f POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrometry; Catalogs; Instrumentation: miscellaneous; Methods: data analysis; Methods: statistical; Techniques: image processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950969271     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/139/5/1782     Document Type: Article

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