[fitsbits] Chandra's WCS tour de force

[Bruce O'Neel]

Well, it almost could be done right now.

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Tools/maki/plugin/LHEAapi.html

is the heasarc tcl plugin.  Fv is written in Tcl.  With some bashing
one might be able to get them all to work together.  OTOH, maybe no
bashing is needed and it would work right now.  In fact, it seems that
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Tools/maki/maki.html might do what you
want.

That all said, I'm not 100% sure that the tcl plugin is well supported
anymore, either by the Tcl folks or by the Heasarc folks.  Maybe
someone from the heasarc could speak up?

cheers

bruce

Rob Seaman writes:
 > Steve Allen <sla at ucolick.org> writes:
 > 
 > > The existing FITS standards provide good grammar of multi-HDU FITS
 > > files, but that grammar consists only of a set of nouns.  We don't
 > > have any verbs.
 > 
 > Another interesting FITS topic from the left coast.  A good item to
 > add to the agenda for the FITS BOF at ADASS.  Alternately, will we
 > have a quorum attending the upcoming SPIE conference?  These more
 > speculative topics would be ideally discussed over a Mai Tai down
 > by the lagoon.
 > 
 > Note an unstated premise of Steve's message:  Why shouldn't a FITS
 > viewer be built into our browsers?  Why should every step prior to
 > publication graphics be carried out in FITS, only to abandon FITS for
 > the final step that is actually visible to the public?
 > 
 > Rob Seaman
 > NOAO Science Data Systems
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