astrometrynet/solver repository overview

This container contains the command-line "solve-field" astrometry solver.

Since you want it to be able to read and write files, you probably want to mount a directory into the container, for example the current directory:

docker run --volume $(pwd):$(pwd) -w $(pwd) astrometrynet/solver:latest solve-field image.jpg

For example, to solve one of the example images, using an index file that is shipped with the Docker image, do

cd /tmp
docker run --volume $(pwd):$(pwd) -w $(pwd) \
  astrometrynet/solver:latest \
  solve-field --dir . /src/astrometry/demo/apod5.jpg

and you will see the results files in /tmp/apod5*.

To use index files that you have downloaded with the Docker image, mount the directory containing your index files into the container at /usr/local/data, for example, if your index files are in the path /data/index/4100, then you can do

cd /tmp
docker run --volume $(pwd):$(pwd) -w $(pwd) \
  --volume /data/index/4100:/usr/local/data \
  astrometrynet/solver:latest \
  solve-field --dir . /src/astrometry/demo/apod4.jpg