cartcursor


This IDL facility provides a point-and-click interface for finding the astronomical location, value and pixel index of the pixels nearest to the pointed position on a cartesian projection of a HEALPix map.


Location in HEALPix directory tree: src/idl/visu/cartcursor.pro


FORMAT

IDL> CARTCURSOR, [cursor_type=, file_out=]


QUALIFIERS


see mollcursor


DESCRIPTION


cartcursor should be called immediately after cartview. It gives the longitude, latitude, map value and pixel number corresponding to the cursor position in the window containing the map generated by orthview. For more detail, see mollcursor


RELATED ROUTINES

This section lists the routines related to cartcursor


see mollcursor


EXAMPLE:

cartcursor  

After cartview has read in a map and generated its cartesian projection, cartcursor is run to determine the position and flux of bright synchrotron sources, for example.

Eric Hivon 2005-08-31