[AstroPy] Bug in wcs_world2pix?

[Bob Garwood]

I suspect what's going on here has to do with the specific CD matrix, which includes rotation.  I think because of that rotation the world coordinate actually maps back in to the grid at the antipode.  I haven't checked this by hand to see if that's the case.

Bob

On September 19, 2014 7:47:30 AM EDT, Howard Bushouse <bushouse at stsci.edu> wrote:
>Huh. But that’s not how astronomers measure RA and Dec, even when
>translated to degrees. If I’ve got an object with an RA of 17:45:00.0
>(hh:mm:ss.w) the RA in degrees is 266.25. We *never* use a negative RA.
>Instead of a range of -180 to 180, we use 0 to 360. Dec is the only one
>that ever goes negative (-90 to +90, as you indicated).
>
>-hb
>
>On Sep 18, 2014, at 8:26 PM, Michael Droettboom <mdroe at stsci.edu>
>wrote:
>
>> The range of ra and dec is (-180, 180) and (-90, 90) respectively.  
>> (211, -26) is equivalent to (31, 26).
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
>> On 09/18/2014 05:04 PM, Maik Riechert wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I'm having some great trouble currently and am a bit confused too:
>>> 
>>> wcs = WCS(header)
>>> x,y = wcs.wcs_world2pix(211, -26, 0)
>>> print x,y # 836.316942718 658.26364248
>>> ra,dec = wcs.wcs_pix2world(x, y, 0)
>>> print ra, dec # 31.0 26.0
>>> 
>>> It seems like world2pix gives me bogus results. I was expecting
>values
>>> way outside my image area (image size is 4256x2832). Am I doing
>>> something obvious wrong?
>>> 
>>> The WCS headers can be seen at http://pastebin.com/JrdiL949
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the help,
>>> Maik
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>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Michael Droettboom
>> Science Software Branch
>> Space Telescope Science Institute
>> 
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