Montage supports all projections supported by the World Coordinate System (WCS).
The following projection combinations have been formally tested, although not all have been subject to scientific validation :
(Click here to see a key explaining the WCS abbreviations)
Input Projection |
Output Projection |
AIT | TAN |
AIT | CAR |
AIT | COE |
AIT | BON |
AIT | QSC |
ARC | TAN |
AZP | TAN |
BON | TAN |
BON | ZEA |
BON | AIT |
CAR | AIT |
CAR | COE |
CEA | TAN |
CEA | SIN |
COD | TAN |
COE | TAN |
COE | CAR |
COE | AIT |
COO | TAN |
COP | TAN |
CSC | TAN |
CYP | TAN |
MER | TAN |
MOL | TAN |
NCP | TAN |
PAR | TAN |
PCO | TAN |
QSC | TAN |
QSC | AIT |
SFL | TAN |
SIN | TAN |
SIN | SIN |
STG | TAN |
SZP | TAN |
TAN | SIN |
TAN | TAN |
TAN | CEA |
TAN | ZEA |
TAN | CAR |
TAN | AIT |
TAN | COE |
TAN | QSC |
TAN | BON |
TAN | STG |
TAN | NCP |
TAN | ARC |
TAN | ZPN |
TAN | AIR |
TAN | AZP |
TAN | SZP |
TAN | MER |
TAN | CYP |
TAN | SFL |
TAN | PAR |
TAN | MOL |
TAN | COP |
TAN | COD |
TAN | COO |
TAN | PCO |
TAN | TSC |
TAN | CSC |
TSC | TAN |
ZEA | TAN |
ZEA | BON |
ZPN | TAN |
AIT | Hammer-Aitoff |
ARC | Zenithal equidistant |
AZP | Zenithal Perspective |
BON | Bonne's projection |
CAR | Cartesian |
CEA | Cylindrical Equal Area (requires parameterization by latitude) |
COD | Conic Equidistant |
COE | Conic Equal Area |
COO | Conic orthomorphic |
COP | Conic perspective |
CSC | COBE quad-cube |
CYP | Cylindrical perspective |
MER | Mercator |
MOL | Molleweide |
NCP | North Celestial Pole (SIN special case) |
PAR | Parabolic |
PCO | Polyconic projection |
QSC | Quadrilateral Spherical Cube |
SFL | Sanson-Flamsteed |
SIN | Generalized stereographic |
STG | Stereographic |
SZP | Slant zenithal perspective |
TAN | Gnomonic (tangent plane) |
TSC | Tangential Spherical Cube |
ZEA | Zenithal/azimuthal Equal Area |
ZPN | Zenithal Polynomial |