Re: A little trouble with very large arrays.

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On Saturday, October 6, 2018 at 10:04:59 AM UTC-6, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> On 10/05/2018 09:49 PM, Shark8 wrote:
> > 
> > Most of the anticipated usage for where I am right now would be producing FITS files, likely in something that would boil down to a coupling like this:
> 
> For that you can probably get by with something that translates your image into 
> a sequence of FITS "blocks" and writes them to a file:
> 
> FITS.Write (Image => Image, File_Name => "George");
> 
> There doesn't seem to be any reason to store a FITS object.

For our specific usage *RIGHT NOW*, sure.
All that's *REALLY* required, for the Telescope's production-side is writing out those blocks, this is true... but doing it this way would be kneecapping myself in the sense of maintenance & usability. (Like global-variables/states.)

[WRT software:] The Astronomy field is pretty fragmented and ripe for solid, reliable, libraries. Getting a good FITS library is only one of several things I'd like to produce:
(1) A good ISO 8601 library, to include periods and intervals;
--(a) This would include a secondary scheduling library.
(2) A stellar-coordinate library;
(3) A good abstraction for telescope-control.