[fitsbits] WCS Paper III

[William Pence]

To reiterate Eric Greisen's previous 24 Feb 2004 posting here, the World
Coordinate Systems Paper III that deals with Spectral Coordinate systems in
FITS files will likely soon be officially considered for approval by the
various regional and international FITS committees.  If you have any
remaining comments or concerns about this paper, please submit them to the
fitswcs at nrao.edu or fitsbits at nrao.edu mail lists (or directly to the authors
or to me) as soon as possible, preferably within the next week.

Bill Pence
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Dr. William Pence                          William.D.Pence at nasa.gov
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HEASARC, NASA/GSFC                         +1-301-286-1684 (fax)


Eric Greisen wrote:
> 
> WCS Paper III has gone through a polishing process covering basically
> all of the text.  Things in red are the changes since 6-Dec-2002, blue
> the changes in the month before that.
> 
> The most serious changes have been in the wording and structure of the
> -TAB section.  We believe that -TAB is an important addition to the
> full WCS environment and that it will be especially useful in
> spectroscopy.
> 
> The authors believe that it is now time for the final consideration
> process to begin.  We urge all to read the paper yet again and, if you
> have any problems with, questions about, or comments on, it to forward
> them to fitswcs at nrao.edu (or fitsbits if they are very general).  The
> Committees should take up the paper asap, before submission to
> Astronomy & Astrophysics.
> 
> The web address for the papers is
> 
>         http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~egreisen/scs_022404.ps.gz
>         http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~egreisen/scs_022404.ps
>         http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~egreisen/scs_022404.pdf
> 
> in order of file size.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Eric Greisen