[APBeta] Creating objects from DSS images - enhancement request

[Paul Rodman]

On Jan 2, 2009, at 03:47 PM, Bruce Pipes wrote:

> No urgency in this; when you have killed most of the bugs, I'd  
> appreciate your taking a look at it, though. I'd like to be able to  
> control-click on a point in a DSS image and create an object in a  
> plan centered on that point. You can currently do this in the FOV  
> window, but if your are trying to center a particular feature of a  
> DSO in an imager you have to get the RA and Dec from the DSS image,  
> set the cursor to that point in the FOV, and control-click. It would  
> be great not to have to transfer the coordinates from the DSS image  
> to the FOV.

Well, as I see it, you want one or both of two options: (a) create a  
new object based on the RA/Dec of the cursor in the DSS image, or (b)  
centre the FOV on the RA/Dec of the cursor in the DSS image.

> Now what would be ever better, but not essential, would be to be  
> able to do the above by overlaying the DSS image on the FOV.

I'm getting closer to doing that, but probably not for V2. I need to  
revise the FOV code, which is quite messy.

Paul R.