NAME

Astro::SkyCat - Interface to the ESO SkyCat library

SYNOPSIS

use Astro::SkyCat;

$cat = Astro::SkyCat->Open("gsc\@eso");

$q = new Astro::SkyCat::Query();
$q->width(2.0);
$q->height(3.5);

$pos = new Astro::SkyCat::WorldCoords(3,19,48,41,30,39);
$q->pos( $pos );

$qr = new Astro::SkyCat::QueryResult();
$nrows = $cat->query($q, "/tmp/file", $qr);

foreach ($cat->colNames() ) {
  print "Column: $_  Value: ", $qr->get(1,$_), "\n";
}

DESCRIPTION

This module provides a perl interface to the ESO SkyCat library. The library can be used to retrieve catalogues and astronomical images.

ROUTINES

AUTHORS

Tim Jenness <t.jenness@jach.hawaii.edu>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001 Particle Physics and Research Council. All Rights Reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.