[AstroPy] Need Help about Astropy.table.Table.write

[David Syphers]

On Jul 29, 2014, at 1:34 PM, David Syphers <David.Syphers at Colorado.EDU> wrote:

> On Jul 29, 2014, at 12:32 PM, Phil Hodge <hodge at stsci.edu> wrote:
> 
>> On 07/29/2014 01:17 PM, Peter Weilbacher wrote:
>>>>> vega = apt.Table.read('ftp://ftp.stsci.edu/cdbs/calspec/alpha_lyr_stis_007.fits')
>>>>>>> WARNING: UnitsWarning: 'ANGSTROMS' did not parse as fits unit: At col 0, Unit 'ANGSTROMS' not supported by the FITS standard. Did you mean Angstrom or angstrom? [astropy.units.core]
>>> This suggestion is not completely right, is it? The FITS standard says
>>>   "Note that, per IAU convention, case is significant throughout."
>>> and the table of allowed units only has the version "Angstrom".
>> 
>> And the unit is "angstrom", not "Angstrom", in spite of the FITS 
>> standard.  Unit names in English are lower case.  Unit abbreviations 
>> begin with an upper case letter if and only if the unit is named after a 
>> person
> 
> Meet Anders Jonas Ångström: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Jonas_%C3%85ngstr%C3%B6m

Um, sorry, ignore the idiot who conflated "unit names" with "unit abbreviations". Still, go meet Anders. Worth knowing him.

-David