On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Giaretta, DL (David) wrote:
> We clearly DO have to read FITS WCS headers!
So I'll happily wait for Java AST.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter W. Draper [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: 20 October 2003 16:58
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: ADASS and IVOA ideas
> >
> >
> > 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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