[fitsbits] CDELTn

William Thompson William.T.Thompson at nasa.gov
Thu Sep 20 12:15:17 EDT 2007


Francois Ochsenbein wrote:
> Sorry Mark, but my question was NOT related to WCS... 
> 
> It's just a matrix, cube, hypercube or whatever n-dimensional hyper-rectangle.
> And on my side I'm perfectly happy with whatever convention for denegerate
> axes -- I was just troubled by the fact that fv refuses a FITS file
> having a CDELTi = 0 for these degenerate axes, and was wondering why.

Sometimes I've found it necessary to tell fv to turn WCS off.

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