[fitsbits] Updated FITS-WCS visualisation page

David Berry dsb at ast.man.ac.uk
Wed Mar 17 11:09:28 EST 2004


Peter,
       Fairly predictable answer - because it was based on an earlier FK5
example and the Equinox keyword slipped past the censor. Thanks for
pointing this out, I've now removed it.

Note though that, if you choose the option to display the "normalised"
output header (using the original incorrect header as input), you will see
that AST correctly filters out the irrelevant Equinox keyword when writing
a new FITS-WCS ICRS header.

David

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Peter Bunclark wrote:

>
>
> 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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