Astro::FITS::HdrTrans module
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What is it?
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Astro::FITS::HdrTrans and associated sub-classes are tools for translating
instrument-specific FITS headers into generically named headers.
Requirements
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The Astro::FITS::HdrTrans module has minimal requirements on other
modules; only Carp and Time::Piece are required. Instrument-specific
sub-classes of Astro::FITS::HdrTrans may require other modules to be
installed, depending on the transformations those sub-classes make.
As an example, the translation sub-class for IRIS2 (an imaging
spectrometer used at the Anglo-Australian Telescope) requires
Math::Trig in order to do zenith distance to airmass translations.
Adding Subclasses
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Adding subclasses to do translations for other instruments should
be fairly straight-forward. Detailed documentation can be found
in the Astro::FITS::HdrTrans::Base class.
Where can I get it?
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The package is available from CPAN .
Installation
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Installation is automated using the ExtUtils::MakeMaker library
% perl Build.PL
% ./Build
% ./Build test
% ./Build install
Authors
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The module was written by Brad Cavanagh and
Tim Jenness of the Joint Astronomy Centre
(JAC) in Hawaii, and Malcolm J. Currie of the Rutherford
Appleton Laboratory (RAL) and the JAC.
Copyright (C) 2007-2013 Science and Technology Facilities Council.
Copyright (C) 2003-2007 Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council.
All Rights Reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple
Place,Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA
Maintainer
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The package is currently maintained by Tim Jenness .
Please use CPAN RT for bug reports and github pull requests for patches.
The source code repository is at
git://github.com/timj/perl-Astro-FITS-HdrTrans.git
Changes
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v0.01 - initial test release to CPAN
v0.02 - Change licence in README to be same as Perl.
Add copyright statement.
Add requirement on Test::More and Time::Piece to Makefile.PL.
v0.03 - Licence should have been GPL
v0.05 - Major rewrite of internals.
Supports all UKIRT and JCMT instruments
v1.50 - Includes support for SCUBA-2 and many fixes for ACSIS.
v1.51 - Use Module::Build
- Minor fix for polarimeter recipe in ACSIS
v1.52 - Add LCOG instruments (thanks to Tim Lister)
- Added OBSERVATION_ID_SUBSYSTEM
- Many improvements to JCMT translations.
- Astro::SLA is now only required for NIRI translations.
v1.53 - The ACSIS test should skip if Starlink::AST is missing.
v1.54 - Update SCUBA-2 base coordinates estimate so that it can
work with subheaders and missing start azel position.
v1.55 - Updates to some LCOG telescope translations (Tim Lister)
- Added AMBIENT_TEMPERATURE for SCUBA-2.
- No longer check OBSID for ACSIS.