In my mind, when you try to identify images from a certain field (by the field ID, or by the object name), i.e., by their "target" property, then you'd also have to identify which section ID was used.
I'm imagining pointing the telescope at "field 35", for example, and then all the chips are "on" that field. So, specifying just the "target" will return all the sections. To really get a single image (or single reference) you'd need to say which section ID you're talking about.
In some situations you maybe would like to do something more loose. I'm not sure if this will ever come up, or if it good enough to just replace the target/section_id pair with coordinates matching by giving ra/dec.
This exists in code that loads images and references.
In my mind, when you try to identify images from a certain field (by the field ID, or by the object name), i.e., by their "target" property, then you'd also have to identify which section ID was used.
I'm imagining pointing the telescope at "field 35", for example, and then all the chips are "on" that field. So, specifying just the "target" will return all the sections. To really get a single image (or single reference) you'd need to say which section ID you're talking about.
In some situations you maybe would like to do something more loose. I'm not sure if this will ever come up, or if it good enough to just replace the target/section_id pair with coordinates matching by giving ra/dec.
This exists in code that loads images and references.