[fitswcs] Long-slit spectroscopy WCS

Malcolm J. Currie mjc at jach.hawaii.edu
Thu Jan 31 18:50:51 EST 2002


I just want to check that my understanding of the proposed long-slit
WCS for an arbitrary position angle.  The examples I've seen only show
the slit aligned along Right Ascension.

For an arbitrary position angle, is it merely a question of computing
the components of the spatial increments along the slit, and assigning
them to CDELT2 and CDELT3?

Malcolm




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