Astro::SkyCat

A perl interface to the ESO (European Southern Observatory) SkyCat library. The SkyCat library is used to access astronomical catalogues and image servers across the internet.

This is currently in proof of concept stage. Simple things work but the perl interface may change.

Requirements

• The catlib library itself. Available from ftp://ftp.eso.org/pub/archive/skycat/README.html The higher level SkyCat libraries are not required.
• This module uses the C++ interface to CatLib so you will need a C++ compiler

Building

Currently the Makefile.PL file must be edited manually to reflect the location of the catlib libraries and the name of the C++ compiler to be used on your system.

perl Makefile.PL
make
make install

There are currently no tests.

Documentation

The catlib library is documented at http://archive.eso.org/skycat/docs/cat/

The perl interface attempts to match the C++ interface as much as possible. See the module documentation for more information.

Platforms

The module has only been tested under linux.

Author

This module was written by Tim Jenness <t.jenness@jach.hawaii.edu> of the Joint Astronomy Centre.

Copyright (C) 2001 Tim Jenness. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

The SkyCat library itself was written by Allan Brighton <abrighto@eso.org> and is copyrighted European Southern Observatory.

Changes

v0.01 - initial test release to CPAN