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skycoord_to_pixel

astropy.wcs.utils.skycoord_to_pixel(coords, wcs, origin=0, mode=u'all')[source] [edit on github]

Convert a set of SkyCoord coordinates into pixels.

Parameters:

coords : SkyCoord

The coordinates to convert.

wcs : WCS

The WCS transformation to use.

origin : int

Whether to return 0 or 1-based pixel coordinates.

mode : ‘all’ or ‘wcs’

Whether to do the transformation including distortions ('all') or only including only the core WCS transformation ('wcs').

Returns:

xp, yp : numpy.ndarray

The pixel coordinates

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