Alberto Conti wrote:
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Alberto:
(1) I have tried to find existing standards, but ISO seems to have nothing. The word "sexagesimal" in Google does not show a recommended notation that I could find. Other information is from "people like us" (Iraf, Starlink, Vizier, etc) and recommends various output formats. In other words, I don't think there is a Sexg standard representation.
(2) The IVOA is a standards organization. Our job is to make standards. Obviously, our standards should not be poor.
(3) I suggest that many formats be "acceptable" to IVOA applications with wide inclusivity. If that effort works, perhaps we can think of a tighter format that is "recommended".
(4) Part of the effort here is to allow our customers to put multiple things in text boxes. If it parses to 2 floats, we assume long/lat in degrees, if it parses to six numbers, it is Sexg, or else perhaps it is an object name.
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Received on 2006-09-17Z18:01:54