[fitsbits] Updated FITS-WCS visualisation page

Peter Bunclark psb at ast.cam.ac.uk
Wed Mar 17 03:22:37 EST 2004


David Berry wrote:

>A few weeks ago I announced a WWW page which uses the AST library to
>draw an annotated coordinate grid for a given set of FITS-WCS header
>cards. I have recently made some changes:
>
>1) I have moved it to a different http server which hopefully will
>give more reliable access to the page.
>
>2) The form should now also function on Netscape version 4 browsers.
>
>3) It will now display alternate axis descriptions in addition to the
>primary axis descriptions.
>
>4) AST recognised a number of non-standard or deprecated features in the
>input FITS header, and can translate them into equivalent standard
>FITS-WCS keywords. The form now has an option to allow these "normalised"
>headers to be displayed.
>
>5) The form also has an option to display the AST FrameSet corresponding
>to the supplied headers.
>
>6) I have added some more examples.
>
>7) A number of bug fixes in AST have been incorporated into the page.
>
>To access the page, go to:
>
>  http://www.starlink.ac.uk/ast/
>
>and then go to the "FITS-WCS Plotting Demo" section.
>
>
>David
>
>
>  
>
Why does your ICRS example have an EQUINOX keyword?

Pete.




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