[iaufwg] Call for vote on the HEALPix WCS convention

[Thierry Forveille]

William Pence writes:
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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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 > > 
Yes.