[fitsbits] Celsius unit in FITS keyword comments

[Walter Jaffe]

I agree.
Walter
> On 03/03/16 08:33, Steve Allen wrote:
> >In this arena the FITS WCS papers, and the standard, have to remain
> >using the word SHOULD rather than MUST.  This is not a subject where
> >authoritarian sentiment nor reasonable arguments about simplicity for
> >parsers of the FITS files can get an agreement for change.  If the
> >IAUFWG were to hold a vote about requiring only SI units, and if I
> >were to enquire the rest of the instrument engineering and
> >construction teams how to vote, I would end up translating their
> >two-word negative response into simply "No".
> 
> Coming from the engineering end I very much agree with Steve.
> 
> People who have to trouble shoot e.g. instrument behavior or telescope
> pointing sometimes want rather strange (at least for somebody who
> would only be interested in the actual description of the data)
> things put into FITS headers in rather strange units.
> 
> 
> Maren Purves
> East Asian Observatory
> 
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