Peter
We clearly DO have to read FITS WCS headers!
..David
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter W. Draper [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 20 October 2003 16:58
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> Subject: Re: ADASS and IVOA ideas
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> Functionally it would clearly be more useful if it could be made pure
> Java. One idea would be to see what would be left if AST was dropped and a
> new graphics system introduced (the idea is that this would be context
> pluggable, maybe with enhanced AST functionality being offered as a
> web-service). Clearly this would rule out using FITS (1D) images and all
> spectra would be read from tables with no WCS/units information (all this
> since we loose the FITS WCS headers parsing). There are probably worse
> consequences I haven't thought of...
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