id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
1255	RA in FITS header is in sexagesimal _degrees_.   Change to sexagesimal _hours_	Michael Wood-Vasey	Paul Price	"The RA in FITS headers for .smf files and .ch.fits files are in sexigesimal _degrees_, which is not a convention that anyone I know uses for RA.  While I'm all for decimal degrees for RA and Dec and think SDSS has done an excellent job in setting that as the new standard, sexigesimal hours remains the only convention for sexigesimal expression of RA.

This is going to cause confusion if left unchanged.

At the very least, the FITS header comment field for RA should indicate that RA is in sexigesimal degrees for that record."	defect	closed	high		concepts		minor	fixed		eugene