NAME

Astro::Catalog::IO::ASSM - AJP ASSM format

SYNOPSIS

    $catalog = Astro::Catalog::IO::ASSM->_read_catalog(\@lines);

DESCRIPTION

Performs simple IO, reading or writing "id_string hh mm ss.s +dd mm ss.s" formated strings for each Astro::Catalog::Item object in the catalog.

METHODS

Private methods

These methods are for internal use only and are called from the Astro::Catalog module. It is not expected that anyone would want to call them from outside that module.

_read_catalog

Parses a reference to an array containing a simply formatted catalog

    $catalog = Astro::Catalog::IO::ASSM->_read_catalog(\@lines);

FORMAT

The ASSM format is defined as follows: Any line that looks like

RAdeg Decdeg filter1mag filter2mag filter3mag sp. type source

COPYRIGHT

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Public License.

AUTHORS

Tim Lister <tlister@lcogt.net>