hpx2dm
This IDL facility provides a means to turn a HEALPix data set
into a DomeMaster
compliant image (azimuthal equidistant projection of the half-sphere
in a PNG or lossless JPEG file) that can be projected on a planetarium.
See eg
http://fulldome.ryanwyatt.net/fulldome_domemasterSpec_v05.pdf
Location in HEALPix directory tree: src/idl/visu/hpx2dm.pro
FORMAT
QUALIFIERS
KEYWORDS
-
JPEG=
- name of the output lossless
JPEG file
-
PNG=
- name of the output PNG file
-
/PREVIEW
- if set, the output JPEG or PNG
file will be previewed
-
/HELP
- Prints out the documentation header
-
PXSIZE=
- number of pixels in each
dimension of the square output image
-
/ASINH,
-
COLT=,
COORD=,
FACTOR=,
/FLIP,
HBOUND=,
-
/HIST_EQUAL,
/LOG,
MAX=,
MIN=, /NESTED,
OFFSET=,
-
/QUADCUBE,
ROT=,
SAVE=,
/SILENT,
-
TRUECOLORS=
- those keywords have the same meaning as in
azeqview and
mollview
DESCRIPTION
hpx2dm reads in a HEALPix sky map in FITS format or from a memory array
and generates a PNG or JPEG file containing a DomeMaster compliant map
(azimuthal equidistant projection of the half-sky).
RELATED ROUTINES
This section lists the routines related to hpx2dm
-
azeqview
- performs Azimuthal Equidistant
projection required by hpx2dm.
-
hpx2gs
- turns Healpix maps into GoogleEarth or
GoogleSky images
Version 3.30, 2015-10-08