######################################################################## ##Programmer: Hemanta Bhattarai ##Institute: Central Department of Physics, Tribhuvan University ##Graduate Student of Astrophysics ##Date:16 July

2013 ##System: Python 2.6 and Numpy package. ##Objective: To do the transformation of coordinate by using NED ## via python using package urllib2 and numpy ##Acknowledgement: Prof. Binil Aryal, who firstly told about the concept. ##Saroj Dhakal, Saroj DC and Ishowr Poudel. ##Special Thanks:Ramesh Pandey.(who introduced me with the term ##'web scrapping' and this term helped me to search how it can be done ##and without this term I couldn't have done this coding. ############################################################################ import urllib import urllib2 import numpy as num a= input('What is your orginal coordinate system\n1.Equatorial\n2.Galactic\n3.Ec liptic\n4.Supergalactic\n\n***Enter the corresponding number.eg for Galactic ple ase enter 2*********\n') if a==1: in_csys='Equatorial' elif a==2: in_csys='Galactic' elif a==3: in_csys='Ecliptic' elif a==4: in_csys='SuperGalactic' else : print"Please enter the valid number and try again" exit() b= input('In which coordinate system do you want to convert\n1.Equatorial\n2.Ga lactic\n3.Ecliptic\n4.Supergalactic\n\n***Enter the corresponding number.eg for Galactic please enter 2*********\n') if b==1: out_csys='Equatorial' elif b==2: out_csys='Galactic' elif b==3: out_csys='Ecliptic' elif b==4: out_csys='SuperGalactic' else : print"Please enter the valid number and try again" exit() a_1=input('What is the equinox of the data\n1. 1950\n2.J2000') if a_1==1: in_equinox='1950' elif a_1==2: in_equinox='J2000' else: print("Enter valid number and try again") exit() b_1=input('What is the equinox of the output data\n1. 1950\n2.J2000') if b_1==1: out_equinox='1950' elif b_1==2:

out_equinox='J2000' else: print("Enter valid number and try again") exit() c=raw_input("Enter the path of the .dat file where your orginal data with longit ude, latitude and position angle in three different column is.eg /home/manu/Desk top/in.dat\n") file1=num.loadtxt(c) d=raw_input("Enter full path where you want to save the file. eg. /home/manu/Des ktop/out.dat\n") file2=open(d,'w') size=num.shape(file1) n=max(size) for i in range(n): values={'in_csys':in_csys,'in_equinox':in_equinox,'obs_epoch':'1950.0',' lon':str(file1[i][0])+'d','lat':str(file1[i][1])+'d','pa':str(file1[i][2]),'out_ csys':out_csys,'out_equinox':out_equinox} data_entry=urllib.urlencode(values) url='http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/calc?' respond=urllib2.urlopen(url,data_entry) lines=respond.readlines() a=lines[18].split() # print a file2.write('%f\t%f\t%f\n'%(float(a[0]),float(a[1]),float(a[2]))) file2.close()