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WCSTools   
Description Package of programs and a library of utility subroutines for setting and using the world coordinate systems (WCS) in the headers of the most common astronomical image formats, FITS and IRAF .imh, to relate image pixels to sky coordinates.
Version installed Ubuntu 22.04: 3.9.6.1 (from the Ubuntu repositories).
Usage See the WCSTools readme for a list of the programs included.
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Manuals and
Documentation
In the WCSTools shell type:
wcstools
to see what commands are available and how to get help on them.
Or check out the WCSTools website.
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