Astrometry.net
This is an internal page for the Astrometry.net project.
Sample Solves
Examples of images we have solved.
- SampleSolvesWide - APOD images from 5 degrees to 180 degrees wide
- SampleSolvesMedium - APOD images from 1 degree to 5 degrees wide
- SampleSolvesNarrow - APOD images less than 1 degree wide
- FlickrSolves
- GregMorganSolves
- MiscSolves
- HarvardPlateSolves
Examples of images we haven't.
Mission Critical Path
We've started alpha-testing the service live on the web. What constitutes success is relatively consistent generation of useful metadata for some subset the following categories of potential users:
- UseCaseSavvyProfessional - astronomer who is unusually computer-savvy
- UseCaseAmateurAstronomers? - highly competent amateur astronomers
Once we get some feedback from alpha testing, we will be moving towards beta-testing, which will try to provide metadata for some subset of these:
- UseCaseProfessional - typical astronomer
- UseCaseWebImage? - human-viewable astronomical images found on the web
- UseCaseBackyardPhotographers? - photos taken with consumer digital cameras
Developer Information
- CodingProjects - stuff you could work on
- Subversion - how to check out a working copy of the code
- View tickets / bug reports
- CodingStyle - coding style we use for astrometry.net
- ScreenPaircode - how Dustin and Hogg pair-code using screen (and Skype tm)
- People - contact info for team members
- AstrometryFashion - exclusive line by Mierle and Roweis
- Mailing list information - how to join our list and read its archives
- CSLabDevelopment - useful tips for developing on CSLab at U of Toronto
- NYU CCPP Wiki - shared information about developing and working with data at NYU
- MeetingMinutes - notes from developer meetings
- AstrometryDotNetSetup - how the astrometry.net machine is set up
- Help pages - how to get started editing this wiki
- NewPeople - how to add accounts for new developers
Analysis and Plots
- NewVerify
- SloanStats - stats about solving SDSS
- SubSloanStats - stats about solving sub-field from SDSS
- ErrorAnalysis - how noise propagates through the system
- NoiseSim - how sensitive are we to code noise
- BandpassSensitivity - how sensitive we are to differences in bandpass of index and field
- BandpassEstimation - how well can we guess the bandpass
- BandpassEstimation2 - how well can we guess the bandpass
- BandpassEstimation2C - how well can we guess the bandpass
- SimplexyTuneup - use simplexy as initialization for a better image fit
- PostmortemAnalysis - A look at our debug output for when a field isn't solving
- SimpleXyVsSdss - comparing official SDSS source extraction with simplexy
- GalexChallenge - plots and analysis of progress on the Galex challenge fields
- GalexChallenge2 - an attempt at solving all the Galex AIS fields
- SloanStatus - how are we doing in the quest to solve Sloan?
- SloanStatus2 - dstn has a new favourite index - how is it doing?
- SloanParameters - stats about setting the parameters for Sloan.
- SolveSeries - a series of figures showing solving a single field
- ZoomOut - an animated gif movie showing that The Sky is Big (tm)
- CatalogPlots - plots of where on the sky various surveys have data
- Picasaweb - analysis of the astronomical content on Picasaweb
- USNOBproblems - how to get raw images from USNO and some problems we see
- Deduplication - (old) a look at code density and justification for deduplication
Documentation
- HydraSetup - ICE-powered distributed solver on the hydra cluster
- BackEndInterface
- InWords - a description, in words, of what we do.
- LibKd - our KDtree library
- DataModel - all inputs and outputs described in gory detail
- SourceDetectPipeline - an outline of the simpleXY code that takes an image and produces an x,y list
- TweakPipeline - an outline of the pipeline for astrometry tweak
- AstronomyTerms - Tidbits of astronomy learned via osmosis during Keir's stay at NYU
- OldDeprecatedDocumentation - Where bits of our documentation go when they're not useful anymore
- FutureFantasies - Fantastical ideas that perhaps one day we might implement
- FlickrSolver - How the flickr solver is put together
