Point source extraction for astronomical images.
cd astrometry.net-0.40/blind
make simplexy
There are a few components to simplexy. Each should be tested against the original C implementation.
var sources = astro.image2xy(arr)
sources = [
{x: X, y: Y, flux: FLUX, background: BACKGROUND},
...
{x: X, y: Y, flux: FLUX, background: BACKGROUND}
]