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[fitsbits] CDELTn
Hi Bill, I'm not sure about the version of fv I was running -- it's on a linux and fv -help does not show the version. I just downloaded the last version (fv5.0) and the problem does not exist any more -- it does accept silently the CDELTi = 0. And it also looks faster -- congratulations ! Sorry for the trouble. I understand the usefulness of degenerate axes (to specify some important parameters) and it seems the developers did not pay attention to this restriction -- which I feel is not relevant for degenerate axes. Thank you, Francois Francois Ochsenbein wrote: 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. I was not able to reproduce this behavior in fv using either the previous 4.4 version, or the new 5.0 version that was just released last week. Which version are you using? Incidentally, the main new feature of fv 5.0 is that it now uses Calabretta's wcslib library to do all the WCS transformations, and thus now supports the full set of possible WCS projections and not just the half a dozen or so classic projections that were previously supported. Even though the current version of fv does not complain if CDELTn = 0 for a degenerate axis, the FITS WCS papers seem pretty clear that this is not allowed. The proposed new FITS Standard document does mention at one point in the text that CDELTn must be non-zero, but this restriction should probably also be stated in the actual definition of the CDELTn keyword. Bill -- _________________________________________________ ___________________ Dr. William Pence NASA/GSFC Code 662 HEASARC +1-301-286-4599 (voice) Greenbelt MD 20771 +1-301-286-1684 (fax) _______________________________________________ fitsbits mailing list http://listmgr.cv.nrao.edu/mailman/listinfo/fitsbits ================================================== ============================== Francois Ochsenbein ------ Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg 11, rue de l'Universite F-67000 STRASBOURG Phone: +33-(0)390 24 24 29 Email: (France) Fax: +33-(0)390 24 24 32 ================================================== ============================== |
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