[fitsbits] Start of the WCS Paper III Public Comment Period

Steve Willner willner at cfa.harvard.edu
Sat Oct 23 02:45:58 EDT 2004


In article <mailman.11.1098386624.16280.fitsbits at listmgr.cv.nrao.edu>,
 William Thompson <William.T.Thompson.1 at gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:
> One of the keywords introduced in this paper is MJD-AVG...

Are people really using the ill-defined MJD instead of JD?  I am
pretty sure the IAU recommends using only the latter.  Or has the
recommendation been rescinded?

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