# 使用 Homebrew, apt 安装 astrometry-net 查看 astrometry-net 的安装路径、可执行文件、元数据以及面向 AI 代理工作流的安全说明。 ## 安装 ```sh sudo av install brew:astrometry-net ``` 其他安装命令: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install astrometry-net ``` 证据: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install astrometry.net ``` 证据: Debian stable package indexes: astrometry.net from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz ## 软件包事实 - **软件包键:** brew:astrometry-net - **软件包管理器:** Homebrew - **版本:** 0.97 - **来源摘要:** Automatic identification of astronomical images - **主页:** - **仓库:** - **最后更新:** 2026-06-25T13:37:37+02:00 - **已生成:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## 可执行文件 - an-fitstopnm (别名) - an-pnmtofits (别名) - astrometry-engine (别名) - augment-xylist (别名) - build-astrometry-index (别名) - degtohms (别名) - downsample-fits (别名) - fit-wcs (别名) - fits-column-merge (别名) - fits-flip-endian (别名) - fits-guess-scale (别名) - fitsgetext (别名) - get-healpix (别名) - get-wcs (别名) - hmstodeg (别名) - hpsplit (别名) - image2pnm (别名) - image2xy (别名) - imarith (别名) - imstat (别名) - listhead (别名) - liststruc (别名) - merge-columns (别名) - modhead (别名) - new-wcs (别名) - pad-file (别名) - plot-constellations (别名) - plotann.py (别名) - plotquad (别名) - plotxy (别名) - query-starkd (别名) - removelines (别名) - solve-field (别名) - startree (别名) - subtable (别名) - tablist (别名) - tabmerge (别名) - tabsort (别名) - text2fits (别名) - uniformize (别名) - votabletofits (别名) - wcs-grab (别名) - wcs-match (别名) - wcs-pv2sip (别名) - wcs-rd2xy (别名) - wcs-resample (别名) - wcs-to-tan (别名) - wcs-xy2rd (别名) - wcsinfo (别名) ## 安装行为 - Bottle: 不可用 ## 版本和新鲜度 - 页面生成时间: 2026-08-03 - 管理器版本: 0.97 ## 项目历史与用法 Astrometry.net is the classic open-source blind astrometric calibration system: give it an astronomical image without reliable coordinates and it solves the sky position, writes standards-compliant WCS metadata, and can annotate known objects. The Homebrew formula exposes both the famous solve-field command and a large toolbox of FITS, WCS, plotting, index-building, and catalog utilities. ### 项目历史 The codebase dates to the Astrometry.net Team work by Michael Blanton, David W. Hogg, Dustin Lang, Keir Mierle, and Sam Roweis, with copyright notices beginning in 2006. The accompanying 2010 Astronomical Journal paper, 'Astrometry.net: Blind astrometric calibration of arbitrary astronomical images,' framed the project as a way to create correct astrometric metadata for useful astronomical images in archival disarray. The official code README says the original code release backed up the claims in the paper for scientific repeatability, then became more robust and usable for a wider audience. That origin still shows in the package: it is not just a single solver binary, but a research-to-operations toolkit including HEALPIX support, kd-tree code, FITS utilities, index builders, and a web-service stack. ### 采用历史 Astrometry.net adoption spans two modes: the hosted nova.astrometry.net web service for casual uploads and the local command-line solver for observatories, astrophotographers, pipelines, and archive processing. The README points users to the web service, the documentation, downloadable code snapshots, Docker containers, and index files. Package-manager adoption is broad because local solving needs repeatable binaries and large offline index files. Homebrew, Debian, and Ubuntu package it, and the upstream README documents a Docker image invocation such as astrometrynet/solver:0.98 solve-field image.jpg for containerized use. ### 使用方式 The core CLI workflow is to install the code, download the index files appropriate for the field sizes being solved, optionally edit INSTALL_DIR/etc/astrometry.cfg, and run solve-field against an image, FITS file, URL, or xylist. The docs explain that the backend reads astrometry.cfg, normally /usr/local/astrometry/etc/astrometry.cfg, to find index files and control solver behavior. solve-field is the main high-level command-line interface. It extracts sources, creates augmented xylists, calls the backend solver, and writes output files such as WCS and annotated products. Power users constrain scale, depth, radius, CPU limit, source extraction, plotting, and index selection for speed and reliability. ### 为什么软件包爱好者会关心 This is a package nerd favorite because it brings a serious scientific stack to a normal CLI install: dozens of executables, FITS table tools, plotting helpers, WCS transformers, and index builders all land on PATH. The real payload is split between packaged code and separately managed index data, so the package's usability depends on documentation, data placement, and config paths as much as on the binary itself. It is also a canonical example of scientific reproducibility becoming operational infrastructure. The same algorithms that backed a journal paper became a web service, a Docker solver, distribution packages, and a local command-line workhorse used outside professional astronomy. ### 时间线 - 2006: Copyright notices begin for the Astrometry.net Team code. - 2010: The Astrometry.net blind astrometric calibration paper was published in The Astronomical Journal. - 2012: The Sphinx documentation set identifies the project documentation authorship and code docs era. - 2024: Upstream tags reached the 0.9x series, with 0.98 available in the documented Docker example. ### Related projects - nova.astrometry.net is the hosted web service using much of the same software. - USNO-B, Tycho-2, 2MASS, and Gaia are reference catalogs used for index files. - FITS and WCS standards are the file and metadata formats the command-line tools manipulate. ### 来源 - - - - ## 安全说明 broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. - **Geiger 风险:** blue / 中 - broad file, network, media, or database tool signal ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: INSTALL_DIR/etc/astrometry.cfg, /usr/local/astrometry/etc/astrometry.cfg ## 其他软件包管理器记录 - Debian apt - astrometry.net - 0.97+dfsg-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: astrometry.net from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Astrometry plate solver | http://www.astrometry.net - Debian apt - libastrometry-dev - 0.97+dfsg-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libastrometry-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Astrometry plate solver (development files) | http://www.astrometry.net - Debian apt - libastrometry0t64 - 0.97+dfsg-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libastrometry0t64 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Astrometry plate solver (shared lib) | http://www.astrometry.net - Debian apt - python3-astrometry - 0.97+dfsg-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: python3-astrometry from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Astrometry plate solver (Python package) | http://www.astrometry.net - Ubuntu apt - astrometry.net - 0.93+dfsg-1.1ubuntu1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: astrometry.net from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Astrometry plate solver | http://www.astrometry.net - Ubuntu apt - libastrometry-dev - 0.93+dfsg-1.1ubuntu1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libastrometry-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Astrometry plate solver (development files) | http://www.astrometry.net - Ubuntu apt - libastrometry0t64 - 0.93+dfsg-1.1ubuntu1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libastrometry0t64 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Astrometry plate solver (shared lib) | http://www.astrometry.net - Ubuntu apt - python3-astrometry - 0.93+dfsg-1.1ubuntu1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: python3-astrometry from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Astrometry plate solver (Python package) | http://www.astrometry.net ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/astrometry-net.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/astrometry-net.yml) ## 来源 - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - pkgdb category and tag curation - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph