pymoctool - manipulate Multi-Order Coverage maps
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Commands
--catalogcoords.txt[orderNN][radiusNN]
Render a circles using the flood-fill method on top of the MOC stack. The input text file should
be whitespace records containing either RA+Dec pairs or Lat+Lon pairs.
--help, -h
Show top-level help
--id Set new identifier for MOC stack
--info, -i
Display information about the MOC stack
--intersection
Intersect another MOC with the existing MOC stack
--name Set new name for the MOC stack
--normalize0-29
Set the maximum depth order of a MOC in the range 0-29
--output, -o
Output filename MOC
--plot Project and render the MOC as a flattened all-sky map
--subtract
Subtract the a MOC from the existing MOC stack
--version
Show the backend PyMOC library version number
Detailed help for individuals commands can be found with pymoctool--helpCOMMANDDescription
pymoctool can be used to manupulate Multi-Order Coverage (MOC) tools for the Virtual Observatory. It is
a command-line tool and can handle files encoded as FITS, JSON, or ASCII. The tool maintains builds up a
MOC stack using union, intersection and subtraction, with the pipeline processed in the order it is
passed on the command-line.
Internally pymoctool uses and exposes the the PyMOC library found in the python-pymoc Debian package.
Examples
pymoctoolfoo.fits--outputfoo.jsonbar.txt--outputboth.fits
Load foo.fits then convert and the save a copy to foo.json perform a union merge with a text-
format MOC called bar.txt and save the result both.fitsName
pymoctool - manipulate Multi-Order Coverage maps
Synopsis
pymoctool[INPUT][COMMAND[FILE]][--outputOUTPUT]
