Package astro

Interface Summary
Constants A collection of astronomical constants.
Photometric An interface describing photometric capabilities.
Photometric.Reduce This sub-interface in the photometric interface combines the information needed to allow for precision photometry.
SiderealTiming An interface defining the calculation of the sidereal time out of a Date object and a Site instance describing the location of the observer on the Earth.
Site An interface describing a geographical location on the Earth.
SolarPosition The interface describing conversion methods of Date objects into celestial position of our Sun.
 

Class Summary
AduHorizontalFit Takes a (multi-extension) fits file and reads it horizontal line per horizontal line.
Aperture This class uses an recursive algorithm to determine the area of intersection of a quadratic pixel with an arbitrary aperture.
Aperture.Circular Test the aperture class on a criculare aperture at center zero, zero and with radius 1.
Aperture.Circular100 Test the aperture class on a circulare aperture at center 100, 100 and with radius 10, for x,y = 0->200
AptSite A Site implementation describing the location of Stella.
AsciiCatalog This class reads an ascii-file and parses it to a list of star description.
AsciiCatalog.BJG2004 Reads the stromgren catalog of NGC 1807 and 1817.
AsciiCatalog.FieldBy Reads the stromgren catalog of NGC 1807 and 1817.
AsciiCatalog.FieldC1 Reads the stromgren catalog of NGC 1807 and 1817.
AsciiCatalog.FieldM1 Reads the stromgren catalog of NGC 1807 and 1817.
Astro Class Astro contains certain routines, that are everyday's need in an astronomer's life.
Astro.Distance Prints out the distance between two points.
Astro.HeliacalRise Prints the date when the sun rises with the target in Germany.
Astro.Jd Prints out current jd or, if a parameter is given, the jd of the date given in the first argument.
Astro.Mjd Prints out current jd or, if a parameter is given, the jd of the date given in the first argument.
BrightestStars Reads in the brightest star catalog (Ochsenbein 1988).
BrightStarCatalog Reads in the brightest star catalog (Ochsenbein 1988).
Broker A stand-alone code excerpt for static telescope brokerage.
Broker.Height Test the height of an astronomical object.
Broker.Sol Test the solar height.
ConstellationFactory A class to provide outlines of constellations as shapes.
ConstellationFactory.Hip A class to convert constellation input files that use HIP-numbers to parsable SkyPath objects.
ConstellationShape A helper class that allows drawing the classical star constellations.
Convert Class containing several conversion routines often used in astronomical context.
FindMultiplets A small class that reads a serialized catalog, roams through all entries and checks for neighbours within a given distance and magnitude range.
GridShape A class that comprises a grid-line.
HauckCatalog Class to serialize Hauck 1997 Stromgren standards Hauck & Mermilliod, A&AS 129, 431 (1998) into an object stream containing a list of Stardescriptions.
HeaderCardDescriptor A helper class that bundles FITS-header cards into descriptors that can then be resolved at run-time to provide true header cards.
HeliocentricJulianDate Command line tool to calculate a heliocentric julian date from FITS header keywords or from command line options.
HipparchosCatalog Reads in the Hipparchos Star Catalog
HipparchosCatalog.SubSample Creates a sub-sample.
HtmIndex Simple class that allows working with the Hierarchical Triangular mesh index.
JulianDate The julian date converts java time stamps into jd and vice versa via its inverse function.
Landolt92Catalog Class to serialize Landolt Johnson standards from AJ 104, 340 (1992) into an object stream containing a list of Stardescriptions.
LightCurveSimulator Very simple program to simulate light curves.
LightCurveSimulator.Series Parses the command line and prints out a simluated light curve.
Location Class to represent observing sites.
ModifiedJulianDate The julian date converts java time stamps into jd and vice versa via its inverse function.
MoonPosition A class calculating the position of the moon.
MoonPosition.Test Testing purpose mainly.
OrbitFit An orbit analyser takes radial velocity data and fits an orbit to it.
OrbitFit.File Reads the rv from a file.
OrbitModel The orbit model is the differentiable model that fits to a radial velocity of an SB1 orbit.
OrbitModel.Calculate Supply the orbit parameters t0, P, e, omega, K1 and vB to the command line to get the orbit solution for the specified time.
OrbitModel.Quadrature Calculates the phases of quadrature, defined as ν=±90, or, if a second argument is given, which is then the argument of periastron, as the times of maximum rv, which follows from the defintion of rv to
OrbitModel.Test For testing.
PastelStar Uses the Pastel catalog to resolve a given name on the command line.
Position A class defining a position in the sky via right ascension and declination.
Precesser Class to do a simple precession.
RaDeParser A class that allows parsing of different formats of right ascension and declination.
Resolver A class used to resolve targets by names, get their postions and field of view.
Resolver.CatalogServlet Tries the servlet catalog method.
Resolver.NameServlet Tries the servlet resolve method.
Resolver.Print A simple test class.
Seeing A class providing some essential seeing properties.
Seeing.Motion Test the image motion part.
SextractorRead Class that reads sextractor files into a list of Sextractor stars.
SextractorRead.Wcs We convert a ICAT output sextractor file to a WCS input file, filtering all non-stars out of the list.
SightInfo A small class that allows calculation of fundamental astronomical properties of an object at a given location.
SightInfo.Print A class to test the main astronomical info.
SimpleSid Class to calculate the sidereal time for a given location and Date.
SimpleSite A helper class that implements the Site interface.
SimpleSol A class implementing SolarPosition.
SimpleSol.Test Test purpose.
SkyPath A sky path uses a Morphing object to convert a ra-dec path on the sky to a pixel path.
SolarPosition.Plato Calculates the overlap between night time and target-above-horizon for a full year.
SolarPosition.Test Test purpose.
SpectralFits This class deals with FITS file received as output from the SES spectrograph.
StarCatalog The object representing a resource-based catalog, like VizieR catalogs or database catalogs.
StarCatalog.Distance For sorting star lists to distance of center.
StarCatalog.Test A test class.
StarDescription A helper class containing general information on a star.
StarDescription.StarComparator<T extends StarDescription> Gets a star definition comparator linked to the named property of the star.
StarSextractor Star description derived out of sextractor output.
StarSextractor.PixelPosition Returns a comparator that sorts sextractor stars depending on pixel distance from a certain central pixel, stated at construct.
StromgrenIndices This small class allows calculation of expected RMS in T_eff, Fe/H, and log(g) determination from Stromgren indices (no H_beta necessary).
StromgrenIndices.FeH We use the provided uncertainties in Fe/H and b-y to calculate uncertainties in T_eff from the Olsen list.
StromgrenIndices.LogG We use the provided uncertainties in Fe/H and b-y to calculate uncertainties in T_eff from the Olsen list.
StromgrenIndices.Teff We use the provided uncertainties in Fe/H and b-y to calculate uncertainties in T_eff from the Olsen list.
SunPosition A class calculating the position of the moon.
SunPosition.Test Testing purpose mainly.
TenerifeSite A Site implementation describing the location of Stella.
TruncatedJulianDate The julian date converts java time stamps into jd and vice versa via its inverse function.
TychoCatalog Reads in the Tycho2 Star Catalog (Hog et al, A&A 355, L27).
TychoCatalog.SubSample Creates a sub-sample.
VizierStar This class converts a net.cds.Vizier.Table into a list of StarDescriptions.
VizierStar.HipparchosUcac2 This class compares the hipparchos main catalogue with the UCAC2 catalogue.
VizierStar.Retrieve Mainly for testing the class.
WcsFit Tries to fit pixels pairs in a fits image to a WcsProjection that minimizes the differences from the projected pixel pairs to the catalog pairs.
WcsFit.Linear We solve for a wcs, reading the pixel pairs and the matched catalog from an ascii file.
WcsFit.Parser  
WcsFit.Polynomial We solve for a wcs, reading the pixel pairs and the matched catalog from an ascii file.
WcsFit.PositionExchange To check if the uncertainty in the WCS determination is from the sextractor positions, we take the IRAF positions as input for the wcs fitter.
WcsFit.Residual This class tries to fit the residuals on command the command line
WcsFit.SigmaMaps Takes a valid WCS from a file plus a matched file and outputs the sigma maps.
WcsFit.Stepper We solve for a wcs, reading the pixel pairs and the matched catalog from an ascii file.
WcsFit.Variable We solve for a wcs, reading the pixel pairs and the matched catalog from an ascii file.
WcsMatch We match the brightest stars found in an image at given x/y coordinates to given catalog entries.
WcsMatch.Coarse Simple matcher class that takes an input catalog and matches it to a (sextractor) output of positions.
WcsMatch.Test Test the method on a very simple system.
WcsModel A mapping of pixel coordinates to WCS coordinates, ICRS 2000 right ascension and declination in almost any possible case.
WcsProjection A wcs projection normally converts pixel on the CCD to ra/de.
WcsProjection.EulerRotation A Euler rotation, defined by the coordinates of the native pole.
WcsProjection.Gnomonic The gnomic projection is the oldest known azimuthal projection.
WcsProjection.LinearGnomonicRaDe A combination from a full-linear projection from pixel space to intermediate world coordinates, followed by a gnomic projection and a euler rotation to get to ra and dec.
WcsProjection.LinearPixelProjection The linear transformation from pixel space to intermediate world coordinates.
WcsProjection.PolynomialGnomonicRaDe A combination from a full-polynomial projection from pixel space to intermediate world coordinates .
WcsProjection.PolynomialPixelProjection This now fits intermediate world coordinates from pixel coordinates with Legendre polynomials such that the pixel coordinates are slightly distorted before calculating the intermediate coordinates.
WcsProjection.ReadWcs A test for reading and interpreting header cards that describe a pure linear pixel-to-intermediate transformation, a gnomic projection and finally a rotation to yield ra and dec.
WcsProjection.ThreeStepWcs A combination put together from three individual WcsProjections, a pixel projection that transfers CCD-pixel into intermediate world coordinates, a true geometric projection (like Gnomonic) and a final rotation to yield coordinates in a known space.
WcsProjection.VariableGnomonicRaDe A combination from a full-linear projection from pixel space to intermediate world coordinates with varying projection center.
WcsProjection.VariablePixelProjection It turned out, that the quality of the WCS solution is highly dependant on the correct position of the native pole, rj.
WcsShift A class that deals with fits files having a valid WCS defined in their header.
WcsShift.Shift Class to print out the fits-file name followed by pixel shift for a central ra/de.
 

Enum Summary
HeaderCardDescriptor.Type How the string descriptor should be converted into a value.
StarSextractor.Flag  
WcsFit.Minimization Three different minimization functions, increasing in robustness.
WcsProjection.LinearPixelProjection.Type