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Lowell Observatory Camera Utility System -- Talk to ArcCon, Broker, LoFits, LoFocus, etc. - replace LOIS
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Include results in arcseconds as well as pixels for PHOT/BOX equivalent functions #1

Open astrobokonon opened 6 years ago

astrobokonon commented 6 years ago

In the current LOIS incarnation, PHOT and BOX return answers just in terms of pixels. To facilitate the easier comparison of these values (like shown in https://github.com/LowellObservatory/NightWatch/issues/6), the FWHM should also be given both in arcseconds and pixels.

It will be far easier to put this in at this level rather than have the end user or plot watcher to try to figure it out itself since there's ambiguity on what image the actual PHOT command was called on just going on the logs alone.

Some current cludges and hacks might also be over in https://github.com/LowellObservatory/DataServants/issues/22 where the higher level consumption happens.

astrobokonon commented 6 years ago

Note that I closed the https://github.com/LowellObservatory/DataServants/issues/22 as wontfix; there are just too many edge cases to consider with the current LOIS setup, so this should definitely be included as a consideration for the LOCUS analysis stuff.