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askap-vast / vast-pipeline

This repository holds the code of the Radio Transient detection pipeline for the VAST project.
https://vast-survey.org/vast-pipeline/
MIT License
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Source detail page NED links are broken #621

Closed marxide closed 2 years ago

marxide commented 2 years ago

Reported by @radioastronomer via Slack:

When you click on the NED link, one consistently gets a lost precision error. This appears to be because a full double’s worth of precision may be betting passed. If we assume 0.01" precision (which is more than we need for matching), I think we need to have the string pass include {0:.6} .format(RA) and {0:.6} .format(Dec) or something similar.

marxide commented 2 years ago

Additional info from @ajfox123 via Slack:

I've found that sources with positive declination coordinate need to have a "+" in between the RA and DEC for links to NED or it won't find the object.

marxide commented 2 years ago

Fixed in 45361eb.