SCAMP and WCS update

[ysBach]

There is a widely used package called SCAMP by astromatic, to correct distortion in WCS.

As I couldn't find some efficient ways to correct wcs by comparing the image with catalog, I always used astrometry dot net. It's been very recent I learnt that there's a software SCAMP, I still cannot find any similar program that can easily be used in Python.

Is there any plan to implement this "wcs correction" to astropy or affiliated packages?

[pllim]

This is more of a question for SCAMP software developers. Whatever they do, as Astropy core or affiliated package, their software license needs to be BSD or a compatible variant.

[mwcraig]

We've talked about adding something like that in ccdproc; I think the main reason it hasn't happened is lack of times.

In addition, a pull request was opened a couple years ago on astroquery to build an astropy-friendly interface to astrometry.net: astropy/astroquery#521

It mostly needs someone to wrap it, I think.