SUN/249.2

Starlink Project
Starlink User Note 249.2

Mark Taylor

8 June 2005

Copyright © 2000 Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils


INT-WFC - Astrometric Calibration for the INT Wide Field Camera

User Note



Abstract

Images observed using the Wide Field Camera instrument on the Isaac Newton Telescope contain nonlinear optical distortions. This note gives a quantitative description of these distortions. It also explains how they can be corrected for easily using the CCDPACK package.

Contents

1 Astrometric calibration for INT Wide Field Camera images
2 Attaching modified coordinates using CCDPACK
3 Acknowledgements