sgsc2 GSC II Star Catalog Search Program Catalog Search Program

By default, only the brightest 100 objects (or closest 100, if the -s p or -s p option is used) are returned. Use the -n option to increase this number.

Output is to standard out, unless the -w flag is set, in which case it goes to objectname.gsc2 or search.gsc2.

The search is always done over the World Wide Web to the URL which is set in the file libwcs/gsc2read.c.
(This program is new in WCSTools 2.9.4)

Command Line Arguments

Examples

Search with results to standard output
Search with results to a file
Find closest star
Find stars by number
Match stars in input catalog

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Last updated 30 July 2002 by Doug Mink dmink@cfa.harvard.edu