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For those of you with a plane to catch, this section provides some instant templates and recipes for performing the most commonly-required operations using AST, but without going into detail. The examples given (sort of) follow on from each other, so you should be able to construct a variety of programs by piecing them together. Note that some of them appear longer than they actually are, because we have included plenty of comments and a few options that you probably won't need.

If any of this material has you completely baffled, then you may want to read the introduction to AST programming concepts in [*] first. Otherwise, references to more detailed reading are given after each example, just in case they don't quite do what you want.



 

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AST A Library for Handling World Coordinate Systems in Astronomy
Starlink User Note 210
R.F. Warren-Smith & D.S. Berry
30th April 2003
E-mail:ussc@star.rl.ac.uk

Copyright (C) 2003 Central Laboratory of the Research Councils