[daip] Re: FITS query

[Eric Greisen]

Elias Brinks writes:

 > Can I pick your brain once more? It's about FITS and AIPS.
 > 
 > When I grab a DSS image from MAST at STScI, there is an option
 > to ask for  FITS format. If I read this into Karma, it recognises
 > the header information and calculates world coordinates to go
 > with pixel coordinates. However, if I read in the same image into
 > AIPS there's no joy. The image is fine, but the header is only
 > very sparsely populated and no RA,Dec info is given.
 > 
 > Whence this difference? Is there a trick or do I need to go
 > through the tedious (and in fact superfluous) process of
 > doing a "plate solution"?
 > 

It is not so much a FITS question - there are coordinate stuff that
AIPS recognizes in FITS.  DSS chose to ignore that and apparentlt
STScI has not updated that project.  There is a task in AIPS called
SKYVE which knows how to interpret DSS keywords.

Eric Greisen