On Thu, 7 Nov 2019, Helen Kirk wrote:
> Thanks, Malcolm and David - this is all really helpful! Personally, I do find
> that the 'grid' coordinates are helpful when comparing to non-Starlink
> software (e.g., opening up the fits file in something like IDL), but perhaps
> that's a less common mode of usage.
No, I think most users would indeed be confused by a move to displaying
non-GRID coordinates after all this time. As Malcolm pointed out this can
be permanently selected on a user by user basis, so I don't see any reason
for change.
Regards to all,
Peter.
>
>
> On 11/07/2019 02:40 AM, Malcolm J. Currie wrote:
>> > Or more simply just run gaia as
>> >
>> > % gaia -pixel_indices 1 <image.sdf>
>>
>> If you don't want to make this an alias or type it every time, you can
>> make a one-time switch via the Control tab "Pixel indices" option within
>> "File->Startup options...".
>>
>> > I for one would like to see "-pixel_indices 1" become the
>> > default, since gaia is about the only commonly used bit of starlink
>> > software that defaults to using GRID coords.
>>
>> As it's a common source of confusion, I'd not object to such a change.
>>
>> Malcolm
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