[fitsbits] FIT Keyword data dictionaries

[Mark Calabretta]

On Sat 2000/11/04 06:45:06 -0000, Patrick Wallace wrote
in a message to: Doug Mink <dmink at cfa.harvard.edu>
and copied to: fitsbits at nrao.edu

>> TELESCOP= 'flwo1.2m'           / TELESCOPE NAME
>> TELGLONG=             110.8748 /LONGITUDE, DEGREES WEST OF ZERO
>> TELGLAT =              31.6809 /LATITUDE, DEGREES
>> TELELEV =               2320.0 /ELEVATION, METERS
>
>Are west-positive longitudes an established convention in FITS?  Although
>at one time both west-positive and east-positive conventions were in use,
>now the east-positive convention is universal.  Sorry USA: you're minus.

Could we stick to right-handed spherical coordinates everywhere in FITS
please?  Celestial coordinate systems in WCS paper 2 (q.v.) are explicitly
right-handed.

Mark Calabretta
ATNF