NAME

best - find the best field of stars within a group of stars

SYNOPSIS

best [box=0.10] [stars] [bright=5.0] [faint=17.0] [factor=] [decimal]

DESCRIPTION

best reads a coordinate file from stdin and finds the best location with in the range of coordinates that has the most stars within the box. The program will print out the coordinate with the most stars (and the name will have the count).

Options

box= sets the square box size in degrees (default: 0.1).

bright= sets the brightest magnitude (default: very)

faint= sets the brightest magnitude (default: very)

stars - prints out the starlist rather than just the best coordinate.

factor= number of steps per box width (default:2).

decimaL - prints out box center in decimal degrees.


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