OBJECT names

William Pence pence at tetra.gsfc.nasa.gov
Tue May 5 18:08:37 EDT 1998


Nicolaas Kuin wrote:

>   There is no reason that Keck and Lick could not introduce their own
> LICK_OBJ for a string like 
> LICK_OBJ = 'NGC 1234, 400 s, blue filter, 1200 line grating'
> which then could be put into the header.

I'd agree that it would be better to invent a new keyword to record the
user's observation title, (OBSTITLE?) and reserve OBJECT for its
intended purpose, which is to give the name of the object observed and
nothing more.

-Bill Pence





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