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From: William Thompson, code 682.1, x2...
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 22:29
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 22:29
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After having read the world coordinates proposal, I am still unclear as to how the developers would describe this very simple problem: Given: A slit spectrograph with a single pointing position. The dimensions of the data are two: one spatial coordinate and one spectral coordinate. However, to describe the pointing, two spatial coordinates are needed, as well as the orientation of the slit, and the spectral dispersion and central wavelength. In other words, the data has only two dimensions, but it takes three dimensions to properly describe it. Secondly, it appears that this convention is only relevant to skymapped data--which I admit applies to most astronomical data. However, it's hard to see the relevance to solar images, for example. Bill Thompson
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Newsgroups: sci.astro.fits Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!ames!nsisrv!stars.gsfc.nasa.gov!thompson From: thompson@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (William Thompson, code 682.1, x2040) Subject: World Coordinates Message-ID: <9NOV199218295135@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov> News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1 Sender: usenet@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Usenet) Nntp-Posting-Host: stars.gsfc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA/GSFC-Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 22:29:00 GMT Lines: 16