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wcsaxes has been merged into astropy!
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Consistent naming for Galactic coordinates #183

Open astrofrog opened 8 years ago

astrofrog commented 8 years ago

Galactic coordinates are named differently depending on whether one instantiates a WCAxes from a FITS header (glon/glat) or creates a Galactic overlay (l/b). This is due to the difference in convention between FITS headers and the coordinate attributes for the astropy Galactic frame.

It might be worth simply always supporting both notations?

cc @Cadair