Bug in parsing low negative declination

egafton / visplot

Visibility plot and observation scheduling tool for telescopes. It allows automatic, nearly-optimal scheduling of an entire observing night.

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Bug in parsing low negative declination #4

Closed egafton closed 4 years ago

egafton commented 4 years ago

From nej:

Checking a bug with low values of Declination. I noticed from the nice back-link to the CDS database that when using dec values lower than the 1 degree (e.g. +-00:10:10) it cannot tell apart the plus/minus sign and it selects the positive dec value. I tried with some random targets just now and it seems to work, however, I just wanted to let you know in case you did not notice.

egafton commented 4 years ago

That may have been a problem before, when we were using pyephem, there must have been a bug somewhere. The negative declinations between 0 and -1 deg work fine now, since we switched to slalib.