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

[Eric Greisen]

Patrick Wallace writes:

 > * 2, after expression (2):  I can't parse the sentence "The zero
 >   transverse velocity case is shown..."  Is there a way of making it
 >   clearer?
 > 
 > * I saw both "Angstrom" and "\AAngstrom" in the text (i.e. not in
 >   quoted strings).  I suspect omitting the ring when spelling out
 >   the full name is better, unless you're prepared to go the whole
 >   hog and write \AAngstr\"om.
 > 
 > * 3.4.1, final paragraph:  in the sentence "That is not to say...in
 >   practice" change the comma and semicolon into --- ---.
 > 
 > * 3.4.4, first paragraph: in the sentence "These are fundamental...
 >   purpose", add a comma after "Paper~1".
 > 
 > * Bottom of that page:  change the comma in "algorithm codes," to a
 >   semicolon.
 > 
 > * 5.1, final paragraph:  in "refraction effects which are naturally" I
 >   suspect that "that" is more correct than "which".
 > 
 > 
 > * 7, in "...are the sidereal time and the observatory location", get a
 >   cheap post-IAU-2000 veneer by adding "(or Earth rotation angle)" after
 >   "sidereal time".
 > 
 > * 10.2, in "rotation of the earth", capitalize "Earth" (matching "Sun"
 >   later in the same sentence).
 > 
 > * Reference to IERS TN 32:  missing umlauts.  The reference should read
 >   "Verlag des Bundesamts f\"ur Kartographie und Geod\"asie, Frankfurt am
 >   Main".

I have made these corrections and have also added the DATE-AVG
keyword.  As Stve points out the table form that one would usually
adopt id DATAna which is a bit unfortunate.  Does it actually conflict
with anything however?  The new papers are found from my main page

http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~egreisen/

with links part of the way done below the license plate pix.  The
actual documents are

http:///www.aoc.nrao.edu/~egreisen/scs_041022.pdf
http:///www.aoc.nrao.edu/~egreisen/scs_041022.ps
http:///www.aoc.nrao.edu/~egreisen/scs_041022.ps.gz

in decreasing order of size.  Prveious versions are retained in the gz
form

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Thanks Pat, Bill, Doug, and Steve for their comments.  See you at
ADASS Sunday.

Eric Greisen