pixel_to_skycoord

astropy.wcs.utils.pixel_to_skycoord(xp, yp, wcs, origin=0, mode='all', cls=None)[source]

Convert a set of pixel coordinates into a SkyCoord coordinate.

Parameters:
xp, yppython:float or ndarray

The coordinates to convert.

wcsWCS

The WCS transformation to use.

originpython:int

Whether to return 0 or 1-based pixel coordinates.

mode‘all’ or ‘wcs’

Whether to do the transformation including distortions ('all') or only including only the core WCS transformation ('wcs').

clsclass or python:None

The class of object to create. Should be a SkyCoord subclass. If None, defaults to SkyCoord.

Returns:
coordsSkyCoord subclass

The celestial coordinates. Whatever cls type is.