Source code for astropy.coordinates.builtin_frames.icrs
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Licensed under a 3-clause BSD style license - see LICENSE.rst
from __future__ import (absolute_import, unicode_literals, division,
print_function)
from .baseradec import _base_radec_docstring, BaseRADecFrame
[docs]class ICRS(BaseRADecFrame):
"""
A coordinate or frame in the ICRS system.
If you're looking for "J2000" coordinates, and aren't sure if you want to
use this or `~astropy.coordinates.FK5`, you probably want to use ICRS. It's
more well-defined as a catalog coordinate and is an inertial system, and is
very close (within tens of milliarcseconds) to J2000 equatorial.
For more background on the ICRS and related coordinate transformations, see the
references provided in the :ref:`astropy-coordinates-seealso` section of the
documentation.
{params}
"""
ICRS.__doc__ = ICRS.__doc__.format(params=_base_radec_docstring)