[iaufwg] Call for vote on the HEALPix WCS convention

[William Pence]

This is a reminder to those who have not yet voted to please do so as soon 
as possible.

regards,
Bill

William Pence wrote:
> Dear IAU FITS Working Group Members,
> 
> The 4 regional FITS committees recently approved the HEALPix World
> Coordinate System convention, therefore it is now time for the IAU FITS
> Working Group to formally consider this convention.  I would like to 
> call on
> each of you to cast your vote on the following resolution:
> 
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> FITS WCS Paper II ("Representations of celestial coordinates in FITS"
> Calabretta, M. R., and Greisen, E. W., Astronomy & Astrophysics, 395,
> 1077-1122, 2002) was written with the intention that new spherical
> projection types might be added in the future.   The conventions for one
> such spherical projection, namely,the HEALPix projection, are given in
> Section 6 of the paper "Mapping on the HEALPix grid" by Mark Calabretta and
> Boud Roukema (available at http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~mcalabre).  The IAU
> FITS Working Group hereby approves this HEALPix convention as an addition
> to the FITS World Coordinate System (WCS) standard.
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> 
> Please send your email vote on whether you approve of this resolution
> (either Yes, No, or Abstain) to me.  Do not reply to the entire iaufwg 
> list.
> 
> The voting deadline is 3 weeks from tomorrow: 27 April 2006.