[AstroPy] Parameter 'origin' in WCS-methods

[Michael Droettboom]

Thomas is correct.

I will produce a new tarball to include the correct test.py -- that was 
just an oversight on my part.

Cheers,
Mike

Thomas Robitaille wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> The various ways to call the pix2sky or sky2pix methods are
>
> wcs.wcs_pix2sky(x,y,0)
> wcs.wcs_pix2sky(x,y,1)
> wcs.wcs_pix2sky(xy,0)
> wcs.wcs_pix2sky(xy,1)
>
> where x and y are 1D numpy arrays and xy is a 2D array. The API is  
> described here: http://stsdas.stsci.edu/astrolib/pywcs-1.4-4.3_api/
>
> In the FITS standard, the bottom left pixel is defined as (1,1)  
> whereas numpy arrays are zero-based, so the bottom left pixel in the  
> image is (0,0). Basically, the origin argument specifies whether you  
> want to assume the bottom left pixel is (1,1) (origin=1) or (0,0)  
> (origin=0). Does this make any sense?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Thomas
>
> On 8 May 2009, at 07:07, Martin Kuemmel wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I installed the newest version of pywcs (v1.4-4.3). The 'test.py' in
>> the tarball complains since there is no parameter 'origin' given
>> in the various methods (e.g. wcs_pix2sky(origin, *args)).
>>
>> The 'test.py' in the repository works, good.
>>
>> But what's the meaning of this parameter, anyway??
>> It's an integer, and learning-by-doing tells me that it matters
>> whether it is a 0 or a 1? Is there some documentation somewhere?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>>
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