The AstroStat Slog » Doug Finkbeiner http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:05:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 Astrometry.net http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/astrometrynet/ http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/astrometrynet/#comments Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:32:49 +0000 hlee http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/astrometrynet/ Astrometry.net, a cool website I heard from Harvard Astronomy Professor Doug Finkbeiner’s class (Principles of Astronomical Measurements), does a complex job of matching your images of unknown locations or coordinates to sources in catalogs. By providing your images in various formats, they provide astrometric calibration meta-data and lists of known objects falling inside the field of view.

Astrometry is a branch of astronomy but the algorithms of locating stars and galaxies mainly come from computer scientists whose fundamental ideas are from statistics and mathematics.

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