Astro::FITS::HdrTrans::UKIRTNew - Base class for translation of new UKIRT instruments

  use Astro::FITS::HdrTrans::UKIRTNew;

This class provides a generic set of translations that are common to the newer generation of instruments from the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope. This includes MICHELLE, UIST, UFTI and WFCAM. It should not be used directly for translation of instrument FITS headers.

These methods are more complicated than a simple mapping. We have to provide both from- and to-FITS conversions. All these routines are methods and the to_ routines all take a reference to a hash and return the translated value (a many-to-one mapping). The from_ methods take a reference to a generic hash and return a translated hash (sometimes these are many-to-many).

to_INST_DHS

Sets the instrument data-handling-system header.

to_UTSTART

Converts UT date in DATE-OBS header into Time::Piece object.

from_UTSTART

Returns the starting observation time in ISO8601 format: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.

to_UTEND

Converts UT date in DATE-END header into Time::Piece object.

from_UTEND

Returns the starting observation time in ISO8601 format: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.

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Astro::FITS::HdrTrans, Astro::FITS::HdrTrans::UKIRT

Brad Cavanagh <b.cavanagh@jach.hawaii.edu>, Tim Jenness <t.jenness@jach.hawaii.edu>. Malcolm J. Currie <mjc@star.rl.ac.uk>

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