(meteorobs) Looking for decent references on Fisheye to Az/El methods

[Rob Weryk]

Hi James,

> I've seen a few posts here and there eluding to this, and am 
> sure there is a LOT of data out there somewhere - the ASGARD 
> system is a demonstration of the success, as an example. I am 
> looking for decent methodology references to convert from m x n 
> pixel locations (x,y) to angle from camera boresight for a 
> fisheye-type lens CCD image, given known first or second order 
> parameters such as focal length, and pixel values such as image 
> boundaries and center.

For ASGARD, I use Jiri's method which is documented in the 
following paper :

 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1995A%26AS..112..173B

I'm sure there are many ways in matlab to perform a non-linear 
fit for the equations in that paper.

  Rob