RE: Common and uncommon goals and software

[<aah@nofs.navy.mil>]

Sorry, I'm thinking on my feet here and I *really* have
to get busy writing software for ASTROCAM.  However, I'd
like to also suggest that RA,DEC not be part of each star's
data, just the image x,y.  Then in the table header, place
the proper coefficients for the astrometric transformation.
That way the table data does not change if you apply a different
algorithm and space is saved in any case.  These starlist files
will not be used by any human for manual merging and so do not need to
have familiar units.
Arne