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Blind astrometry plate-solving library.
Zodiacal identifies the region of sky depicted in an astronomical image by matching geometric star patterns against a reference catalog, returning a WCS (World Coordinate System) solution.
Modules§
- extraction
- fitting
- geom
- index
- kdtree
- Generic N-dimensional KD-tree for fast spatial search.
- pointing
PointingSource— abstracts “where is this platform looking right now?”- quads
- Quad codec: geometric hashing of 4-star patterns for blind astrometry.
- realtime
RealtimeSolver— orchestrator that tiesLiveIndex+PointingSource+ the existing solver/refinement pipelines into one realtime-friendlytick()/solve()interface.- refinement
- High-precision astrometric refinement.
- solver
- Main blind plate solver that ties together quad building, code matching, WCS fitting, and verification.
- tweak
- Iterative SIP distortion refinement.
- verify
- Bayesian verification of candidate WCS solutions.