Dear Norman,
> As part of this, I produced a set of UCD equivalents for a candidate
> list of FITS keywords.
I did the same exactly a year ago. UCDs have evolved since then, and the
list I'm appending was not revised according to the new list now on-line.
The list was generated merging the headers produced by 7
observatories/data_producers (with data in all ranges of wl).
> There were some gaps, however, and I wasn't
> sure how to go about filling them. Is there a better way than looking
> through the one-line descriptions in the current list at
> <http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/UCD/ucd1p-words.txt>? There are two UCD
> tree browsers on the UCD page, of course, but they're really just a
> more attractive presentation of the text list and don't, for example,
> have more discursive documentation. The other UCD tools didn't produce
> any useful suggestions for `BITPIX' or `number of axes'
I agree, even the "builder" will not be of great help with BITPIX!
> What would be _really_ nice, of course, is a tool which allowed you to
> enter one of a subset of FITS keywords and produced one of a few
> possible UCDs to use instead.
If you think that the appended list (better, an updated version of it)
could be the base for such a tool, I'll do it (the tool, I mean)
All the best,
Andrea