SIA Evolution Proposal

[Pedro Osuna]

Sorry guys, but I've stopped to understand how from this morning:

[...]Obviously I do not want to repeat  the same min and max wavelength
for each of  the observations taken with the same filter.
[...]

we arrive to this other: 

[...]
>But here we have two observations (which are pretty natural units >in
the astronomical world) which just happen to have the same filter
>setting.  I don't see it as terribly wasteful to have the filter 
>values specified twice, once within each observation chunk
>
>>Yes Clive, I was thinking about that too.
[...]


P.

On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 17:22, Alberto Micol wrote:
> >But here we have two
> >observations (which are pretty natural units in the astronomical world)
> >which just happen to have the same filter setting.  I don't see it as
> >terribly wasteful to have the filter values specified twice, once within
> >each observation chunk
> >
> 
> Yes Clive, I was thinking about that too.
> Nevertheless, I'm used to live in a word that is a bit less than perfect;
> apart from Iraqi or Palestinian or American (depends on your point of 
> view) considerations,
> here I mean that the speed of light is finite, and the bandwidth is what 
> it is.
> Hence, for more than just a couple of observations, I prefer not to 
> duplicate
> information.
> 
> Alberto
> PS: Maybe it's too long that I work with RDBMSes, certainly I am always 
> too worried
> about things that could go wrong or slow. And the fact that I care about 
> them does not
> make my way of developing faster ... catch22 ... help!
> 
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