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RA/Dec should be numeric quantities #9

Open DouglasBoubert opened 6 years ago

DouglasBoubert commented 6 years ago

In the faststars module I believe RA and DEC should be numeric quantities. I have two arguments for this:

  1. Any calculations I do involving the kinematics of faststars first involves converting the strings RA and DEC into numeric values, and thus I end up doing this frequently and repeatedly.
  2. The Gaia catalogue includes the errors and correlations of RA and DEC with other numeric quantities.
guillochon commented 6 years ago

That seems reasonable to me.