astropy / astropy/reproject

Implement plane-to-plane transformations for tangent plane projections

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Description

It could be useful to implement an alternative ``pixel_to_pixel`` which implements the fast reprojection algorithm mentioned here:

http://montage.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/algorithms.html

specifically for WCSes with the same coordinate frame and in a specific subset of projections, it should be possible to do much faster computations of pixel-to-pixel transformations.

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Research direction

Start at the existing pixel_to_pixel entry point and read the linked Montage reprojection algorithms. Determine which same-coordinate-frame projections can use the proposed plane-to-plane path, then define and validate the supported fast transformations; the issue does not name specific files or tests.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
data, performance
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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