Re: Combining slices loses FITS header data

Posted by Bill Tschumy on Sep 16, 2022; 1:39pm
URL: http://astroimagej.170.s1.nabble.com/Combining-slices-loses-FITS-header-data-tp1997p2005.html

Karen,

Might be worth asking Han about that.  I’m sure he has giving it a lot of thought.  My first impression is that we should leave it unsolved and let the user re-solve it if need be.  Using the first WCS solution has the risk of not being entirely accurate for the stacked image and the user would have no way of knowing that.  Leaving it unsolved is the safest solution.

As I mentioned, I would be willing to take a crack at implementing this.  However, you might want to have someone more experienced with the code do it.  That’s fine with me as well.  Let me know.

Bill