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Welcome to STWCS's documentation!
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+This package provides support for WCS based distortion models and coordinate
+transformation. It relies on PyWCS (based on WCSLIB). It consists of two subpackages:
+UPDATEWCS and WCSUTIL. UPDATEWCS performs corrections to the basic WCS and includes
+other distortion infomation in the science files as header keywords or file extensions.
+WCSUTIL provides an HSTWCS object which extends pywcs.WCS object and provides HST instrument
+specific information as well as methods for coordinate tarnsformaiton. WCSUTIL also provides
+functions for manipulating alternate WCS descriptions in the headers.
+
Contents:
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
+
+ wcsutil
+ updatewcs
+
Indices and tables
==================