WD-DALI-1.1 polygon winding direction
Felix Stoehr
fstoehr at eso.org
Thu Sep 8 10:00:08 CEST 2016
Dear all,
after some side-discussions with Marc I believe the following is true:
- STC-S declares clockwise and counterclockwise with respect to the
celestial coordinate frame (north up, east to the left as seen from earth)
- this is consistent with the footprintfineder.py output and thus all
the MAST/ALMA/ESA spectra
- area calculations will be correct in this definition and coordinate frame
- it is a bit counter-intuitive, because it means that anticklockwise
polygons in that definition are clockwise if you look up on the sky from
earth.
It might be worthwile to declare in WD-DALI-1.1 the coordinate system in
which the clockwise/anticlockwise are defined, i.e. in which system to
"hold the clock".
Best regards,
Felix
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