[ITP] astrometry.net-0.38-1

[Jussi Kantola]

Hi folks --

I'm trying this for the second and final time, just in case this got
ignored earlier because of formal mistakes in the submission, or
holidays, or ...

It's a package that our project
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/astromate/) would benefit immensely
from, as the routine of installing cygwin, selecting (all of the) the
required packages and compiling astrometry.net is beyond the skills of
the target audience (amateur astronomers).  Not included in any of the
major distros.

Included is a small subset of the freely available Tycho-2 star
catalogue, which can be used for testing the installation:

cd /usr/local/astrometry/examples; ../bin/solve-field.exe apod4.jpg

For a comprehensive sky catalogue, see
http://trac.astrometry.net/browser/trunk/src/astrometry/GETTING-INDICES

category: Science
requires: cairo libcairo2 python-cairo libnetpbm10 netpbm libpng14
libjpeg8 zlib zlib0 python python-numpy pkg-config cygwin
sdesc:    "Astrometry.net astrometrical solver."
ldesc:    "Astrometry.net analyses an astronomical image (photograph of the
night sky) to output, among other things, the central coordinate of the image,
the visible field of view, and the list of deep sky objects potentially
visible within the field."

wget \
  http://rubor.org/astrometrytortilla/astrometry.net/astrometry.net-0.38-1.tar.bz2
\
  http://rubor.org/astrometrytortilla/astrometry.net/astrometry.net-0.38-1-src.tar.bz2
\
  http://rubor.org/astrometrytortilla/astrometry.net/setup.hint