Astrometry.net: Automatic Recognition and Calibration of Astronomical Images

We present Astrometry.net, a system for automatically recognizing and astrometrically calibrating astronomical images, using the information in the image pixels alone. The system is based on the geometric hashing approach in computer vision: We use the geometric relationships between low-level feat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lang, Dustin
Other Authors: Roweis, Sam
Language:en_ca
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/19281