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- Description:
This routine normalises a set of Frame coordinate values which
might be unsuitable for display (e.g. may lie outside the
expected range) into a set of acceptable values suitable for
display.
- Invocation:
CALL AST_NORM( THIS, VALUE, STATUS )
- Arguments:
-
THIS = INTEGER (Given)
-
Pointer to the Frame.
-
VALUE( * ) = DOUBLE PRECISION (Given and Returned)
-
An array with one element for each Frame axis
(Naxes attribute). Initially, this should contain a set of
coordinate values representing a point in the space which the
Frame describes. If these values lie outside the expected
range for the Frame, they will be replaced with more
acceptable (normalised) values. Otherwise, they will be
returned unchanged.
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STATUS = INTEGER (Given and Returned)
-
The global status.
- Notes:
-
For some classes of Frame, whose coordinate values are not
constrained, this function will never modify the values
supplied. However, for Frames whose axes represent cyclic
quantities (such as angles or positions on the sky), coordinates
will typically be wrapped into an appropriate standard range,
such as zero to 2*pi.
-
It is intended to be possible to put any set of coordinates
into a form suitable for display by using this function to
normalise them, followed by appropriate formatting
(using AST_FORMAT).
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AST A Library for Handling World Coordinate Systems in Astronomy
Starlink User Note 210
R.F. Warren-Smith & D.S. Berry
30th April 2003
E-mail:ussc@star.rl.ac.uk
Copyright (C) 2003 Central Laboratory of the Research Councils