[fitswcs] Polynomial Correction Function & Alternative-WCS
Doug Mink
dmink at cfa.harvard.edu
Thu May 7 15:41:35 EDT 1998
Don Wells wrote:
>
> Don Wells writes:
> > Polynomial Correction Function, Alternative-WCS Descriptions
> > DRAFT-for-comments 1998-05-06
>
> > .. The polynomial coefficients
> > will be specified by keywords of the form:
> >
> > CPn = <E-format-value> / coeff of polynomial term n
> ^^
> WC
>
> I think 'WC' might be a better choice for the prefix.
> I suspect that in the celestial coordinate case CRVALi must be carried
> to the celestial coordinate step of the calculation; probably I should
> withdraw my CRVAL1 --> CP1000 suggestion. I still think that the CDi_j
> keywords can be replaced by WCn (CPn).
I think that if we keep CRVALi, we should keep CPinnnn
-Doug
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