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diff --git a/doc/headerlet_tsr/source/hdrlet_tsr.rst b/doc/headerlet_tsr/source/hdrlet_tsr.rst index 6ab423b..398e58f 100644 --- a/doc/headerlet_tsr/source/hdrlet_tsr.rst +++ b/doc/headerlet_tsr/source/hdrlet_tsr.rst @@ -1,26 +1,3 @@ -================================================================== -Definition of a Headerlet and Its Role in Updating WCS Information -================================================================== - -.. abstract:: - :author: Warren Hack, Nadezhda Dencheva - :date: 22 Oct 2012 - - - A headerlet is a self-consistent representation of a single WCS solution for a single - exposure complete with all distortion information. FITS is the data - storage format currently supported. It has no observational data - which makes it relatively small and light to distribute. - It is, essentially, a mechanism for encapsulating WCS information - which can later be used to update the WCS of a science file and allows - improved astrometric solutions to be stored and passed around easily. - The HST archive is expected to start accepting headerlets for HST data soon. - However the implementaiton is not HST specific and FITS WCS standard, as well as - all WCS conventions implemented in pywcs are supported. - This report describes the format and contents of a headerlet - along with the software implementation and methods for creating headerlets and using them - to update the WCS of a science observation. - Introduction ============ diff --git a/doc/headerlet_tsr/source/index.rst b/doc/headerlet_tsr/source/index.rst index c6ef136..cec192c 100644 --- a/doc/headerlet_tsr/source/index.rst +++ b/doc/headerlet_tsr/source/index.rst @@ -1,8 +1,26 @@ .. Headerlet Definition TSR master file TSR 2012-02: Definition of a Headerlet and Its Role in Updating WCS Information -================================================================================ +=============================================================================== +.. abstract:: + :author: Warren Hack, Nadezhda Dencheva + :date: 22 Oct 2012 + + A headerlet is a self-consistent representation of a single WCS solution for a single + exposure complete with all distortion information. FITS is the data + storage format currently supported. It has no observational data + which makes it relatively small and light to distribute. + It is, essentially, a mechanism for encapsulating WCS information + which can later be used to update the WCS of a science file and allows + improved astrometric solutions to be stored and passed around easily. + The HST archive is expected to start accepting headerlets for HST data soon. + However the implementaiton is not HST specific and FITS WCS standard, as well as + all WCS conventions implemented in pywcs are supported. + This report describes the format and contents of a headerlet + along with the software implementation and methods for creating headerlets and using them + to update the WCS of a science observation. + Contents: .. toctree:: |