WCSsubs Subroutines

These subroutines, developed as part of the WCSTools software package,
constitute a self-contained package for accessing the world coordinate
systems of FITS or IRAF(.imh) images, with image header I/O contained
in fitsfile.c and imhfile.c, and WCS initialization and use through the
subroutines in wcs.c.  WCS information for an image is kept in a single
data structure defined in wcs.h.  Pixel to WCS translations are done by
calls to pix2wcst() or pix2wcs().  WCS to pixel translations are done
by calls to wcs2pix() or wcsc2pix().  The contents of the files are
briefly described in Files.  Dependencies between these files are given
in Makefile.  Documentation, to some extent, is online at

http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/wcstools/libwcs.wcs.html

Documentation for the entire open-source WCSTools package is online at

http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/wcstools/

Projection code in wcspos.c is by Bill Cotton of NRAO and is
protected by the Gnu Lesser General Public License, which is stated
in the file COPYING.  Projection code in wcslib.c,
cel.c, lin.c, proj.c, wcstrig.c, and sph.c is by Mark Calabretta
of CSIRO and is also protected by the Gnu Lesser General Public
License.  Code in slasubs.c is by Pat Wallace of the Starlink
project at Cambridge University.  Doug Mink is responsible for
the rest of the code, unless otherwise noted in the source file.
Unless otherwise noted, this code is Copyright 2003 by the
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and protected by the Gnu
Lesser General Public License.

-Jessica Mink (jmink@cfa.harvard.edu)
 Telescope Data Center
 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
 Cambridge, Massachusetts
 http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/mink
