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

[Michael S. P. Kelley]

Thanks for that info.  FYI, Here's essentially the same
recommendation, but at the IAU:

Quantity, Unit: Name, Symbol, Value
length, angstrom, Å, 10^-10 m = 0.1 nm

http://www.iau.org/publications/proceedings_rules/units/

Cheers,
Mike

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 3:34 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
>
> -David