Python Interface for Astrometry.net

[Curtis McCully]

I was wondering if there was a way to interface with astrometry.net directly through Python instead of using the command line to solve-field? It is mostly just a convenience thing, but I thought it was worth asking. Thanks

[Dustin Lang]

Hmm, good question.  There currently isn't a high-level solve-field equivalent in the python interface.  It would be a good thing to add, though.

I just filed a new issue: https://github.com/dstndstn/astrometry.net/issues/32

(But current rate of closing issues is approximately zero)

--dstn

[Emanuele Laface]

Hi. I would love to have a python wrapper for astrometry.

In the meanwhile I created a python code that uses astrometry (solve-field) in a system call and process the output files to obtain the data about stars and positions.

If you are interested you can find here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/astrophoto/files/?source=navbar

It is very experimental and I am not sure that works for everyone.

Ciao,

e.