How To Install astrometry on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install astrometry in Fedora 36. astrometry is Blind astrometric calibration of arbitrary astronomical images

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install astrometry on Fedora 36.

What is `astrometry`

The astrometry engine will take any image and return the astrometry world coordinate system (WCS), a standards-based description of the transformation between image coordinates and sky coordinates. Other tools included in the astrometry package can do much more, like plotting astronomic information over solved images, convertion utilities or generate statistics from FITS images.

We can use yum or dnf to install astrometry on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install astrometry.

Install astrometry on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install astrometry using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install astrometry

Install astrometry on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install astrometry using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install astrometry

How To Uninstall astrometry on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the astrometry package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove astrometry

astrometry Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/astrometry.cfg
/usr/bin/an-fitstopnm
/usr/bin/an-pnmtofits
/usr/bin/astrometry-engine
/usr/bin/astrometry-tablist
/usr/bin/astrometry-tabmerge
/usr/bin/build-astrometry-index
/usr/bin/downsample-fits
/usr/bin/fit-wcs
/usr/bin/fits-column-merge
/usr/bin/fits-flip-endian
/usr/bin/fits-guess-scale
/usr/bin/fitscopy
/usr/bin/fitsgetext
/usr/bin/fitsverify
/usr/bin/get-healpix
/usr/bin/get-wcs
/usr/bin/hpsplit
/usr/bin/image2xy
/usr/bin/imarith
/usr/bin/imcopy
/usr/bin/imstat
/usr/bin/listhead
/usr/bin/liststruc
/usr/bin/modhead
/usr/bin/new-wcs
/usr/bin/pad-file
/usr/bin/plot-constellations
/usr/bin/plotquad
/usr/bin/plotxy
/usr/bin/query-starkd
/usr/bin/solve-field
/usr/bin/startree
/usr/bin/subtable
/usr/bin/tabsort
/usr/bin/wcs-grab
/usr/bin/wcs-match
/usr/bin/wcs-pv2sip
/usr/bin/wcs-rd2xy
/usr/bin/wcs-resample
/usr/bin/wcs-to-tan
/usr/bin/wcs-xy2rd
/usr/bin/wcsinfo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/00
/usr/lib/.build-id/00/43d39d0a1818116cdb409f8dc5544f01e17ba6
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b/de3a5bde8425d3b31396bcdab983ac62d91142
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d/d2b98d0a31bc9276ac3cdd38b000f486669c72
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e/e42369a46eeb1a3173423b8861a42196cf2329
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/8ea4bbd414c66fd99be2edad34931081b8a0c8
/usr/lib/.build-id/13
/usr/lib/.build-id/13/da245b9611f26465584d1527524f895575b4fd
/usr/lib/.build-id/16
/usr/lib/.build-id/16/438f8c27883ae66c0809762d93ca52b5613743
/usr/lib/.build-id/27
/usr/lib/.build-id/27/1d772bf70447e77fdbc803d870293f1ea578e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f/afa0f816a6c9093f1e377a60a2f447312d4763
/usr/lib/.build-id/42
/usr/lib/.build-id/42/a2167d53a7db2e75574f6d7cf43afe75a73e8c
/usr/lib/.build-id/45
/usr/lib/.build-id/45/2cc8fbcc39f50ab6a7802d8dff82eb14faf772
/usr/lib/.build-id/45/f3793f50b4c1737a1db9cca2aa4d3f8bcac7cf
/usr/lib/.build-id/49
/usr/lib/.build-id/49/aeab633bcf2631c83fb5776677986c896457b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/51
/usr/lib/.build-id/51/61ac93e95bbeebaf11b0e20e56bc35973a1e48
/usr/lib/.build-id/53
/usr/lib/.build-id/53/e5f4fe2adce533d7459586347baa3a8b641634
/usr/lib/.build-id/60
/usr/lib/.build-id/60/302dd622e4558d567e56ea24d04c098bf3c867
/usr/lib/.build-id/67
/usr/lib/.build-id/67/66c7a986707b8fac3040fb1e9156e57dbf6873
/usr/lib/.build-id/68
/usr/lib/.build-id/68/2db7a6c86c0b9f409ee816e3953d06225a9299
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/3418c151f1b1103dfe139d1105347796e1958a
/usr/lib/.build-id/70
/usr/lib/.build-id/70/9d3cb4f2e10b183a56d322b8dd5cf5dbc5d25a
/usr/lib/.build-id/70/a4d6c8b811a90a5628998cea3c6937b16cf3e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/74
/usr/lib/.build-id/74/150062bf65a84557f0520a4f2367e1da665281
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a/7bf851d5aae349640831b275abcde30d0b968d
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d/1ab2ff75ad3731c9c12dff7e6b5e63735318c0
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d/6ebcf55e315fc65a2e6f457cbfb9328d7960ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a/7de301c6a612111cf96fa03c66d712891a07d6
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b/2d5eea66f9cd37ec6495ee3005a362456a79ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/90
/usr/lib/.build-id/90/a08137e0386238a10906b0c6cfac295996eebf
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a/22449e1deed5b417d8d5a1a28d3e9580475501
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2/a46649734edabe97d6ff2d9f96b2530dcf2f79
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3/873489f0b2457d349ba3f4a24c286bce8a48c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf/2ee1582a2a368bb26e59bf3bd5fcc83ed682cf
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3/2dd5d9e37b66d5afd35e5dbca8379bc813b878
/usr/lib/.build-id/da
/usr/lib/.build-id/da/bf9e8213b88237f750dde4bdac3bfe7c66075f
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8/18af647a320338e14d552bb3f0003af3dcf33d
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9/d08eac478c3bfe10ec18842ce1fd1839ee4eec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee/08420a1a4dd3870102f40fe02d8ed7cd196472
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3/17c0af1f443bbccc083c28555601ad5899eebb
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7/ca4ec4b40972518e6e1248bfa3413124d948c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9/0888e98048ad915d4cd541b47372947dd93140
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb/69362d2438d189c3733aded66b8643600fae22
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc/978a28e1ae8e90953fbd7f8bf77d6c94092c83
/usr/share/astrometry
/usr/share/astrometry/data
/usr/share/astrometry/examples
/usr/share/doc/astrometry
/usr/share/doc/astrometry/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/astrometry/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/astrometry
/usr/share/licenses/astrometry/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/an-fitstopnm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/an-pnmtofits.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/astrometry-engine.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/build-astrometry-index.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/coadd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/downsample-fits.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fit-wcs.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fits-flip-endian.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fits-guess-scale.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fitsgetext.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/get-healpix.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/get-wcs.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/hpsplit.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/image2xy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/new-wcs.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pad-file.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/plot-constellations.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/plotquad.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/plotxy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/query-starkd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/solve-field.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/subtable.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tabsort.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wcs-grab.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wcs-match.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wcs-pv2sip.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wcs-rd2xy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wcs-resample.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wcs-to-tan.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wcs-xy2rd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wcsinfo.1.gz

References

astrometry website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install astrometry on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).