[AstroPy] Coordinates subpackage - request for help

[Demitri Muna]

Hi,

We are in the process of testing the new astropy coordinates package. One test that I think would be useful is this (which Tom also mentioned):

* generate 1000 ra/dec J2000 random points on the sky
* convert them to, in steps,
   - galactic
   - B1950
   - ecliptic
   - equatorial J2000

Can someone do this in IDL? The result should be

* the file containing 1000 points
* the resulting points at the end of the conversions
* the IDL script

The aim is to write a script using the coordinates package and see if there are any discrepancies. We will add this to the testing suite.

I thought I'd cc the astropy list as I'm sure there are lots of people who are proficient in IDL and can probably do this pretty quickly.

Cheers,
Demitri 

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Demitri Muna

Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics
New York University

http://scicoder.org


_________________________________________
Demitri Muna

Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics
New York University

http://scicoder.org