Astrometrica2ADES

Code to convert Astrometrica output files into the new MPC ADES format for astrometry data interchange (link to MPC ADES page)

Installation instructions

Linux/Unix

If you want to look at and (potentially) modify the code, the method below will give you a local checkout and install it (you likely want to make an activate a virtualenv first):

1. git clone https://github.com/LCOGT/Astrometrica2ADES
2. cd Astrometrica2ADES
3. pip install -r requirements.txt
4. python setup.py install

To install it in one step, you can just do: pip install git+https://github.com/LCOGT/Astrometrica2ADES

Windows

This will setup a Virtual Environment, activate it and then install the code. You will need to activate the Virtualenv again if you restart the computer or quit the Git Bash shell.

0. Get and install Python3 if you don't have it already (https://www.python.org/downloads/)
1. Launch Git Bash (https://git-scm.com/downloads)
2. virtualenv ~/ades_venv
3. source ~/adev/Scripts/activate
4. pip install git+https://github.com/LCOGT/Astrometrica2ADES

Usage

The basic usage is astrometrica2ades ~/path/to/MPCReport.txt. This will create an output file in MPC ADES Pipe Separated Value (PSV) format in ~/path/to/MPCReport.psv. If you want to put the PSV output in a different file, you can add it after the path to MPCReport.txt e.g. astrometrica2ades ~/path/to/MPCReport.txt ~/different/path/to/My_Output.psv