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Name

SkyMaker - generate artificial catalogs of astronomical sources

Synopsis

sky [-c configuration-file]
[-parameter1 value1 -parameter2 value2 ...]
sky -d

Description

SkyMaker is a program that generates artificial astronomical images. Catalogs produced by Stuff can be loaded to generate realistic image simulations. See http://terapix.iap.fr/soft/skymaker for more details.

Operation modes:

-h, --help
print this help, then exit
-V, --version
print version number, then exit
-d, --dump
dump a default configuration file

Author

Written by Emmanuel Bertin (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris and Observatoire de Paris).

Copyright 1995-2005 Emmanuel Bertin This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Reporting Bugs

Report bugs to <bertin@iap.fr>.

See Also

sex(1) ,stuff(1)

The full documentation for STUFF is maintained as a Postscript or PDF manual available at http://terapix.iap.fr/soft/skymaker


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