Headers of simulations Let's use ESO-style FITS headers to manage our simulations. For example ESO's OBServing block definition to index our simulations. A set of consecutive simulated images with a single simulations set up is then a single OBS. We should use the appropriate fields to store full simulation configuration. Some things are anticipated to come in handy at later stage, for now we can fill in 'TBD' for strings or -99 for integers in those cases. The header keywords (or eqivalent) to the astrometry keywords (though CD2_2) are the most important. The remainder can be added later, but are already useful. SIMPLE = T / conforms to FITS standard BITPIX = -32 / Bits per pixel NAXIS = 2 / File dimension NAXIS1 = 4096 / Size in x NAXIS2 = 4096 / Size in y DATE = '2010-11-16T01:06:35' / Date this file was written TELESCOP= 'E-ELT ' / ESO Telescope Name INSTRUME= 'MICADO ' / Instrument used. OBJECT = 'NOVA-SIM1' / Original target. RA = 150.00 / 10:00:00.0 RA (J2000) pointing (deg) DEC = -30.00000 / -30:00:00.0 DEC (J2000) pointing (deg) EPOCH = 2000.0 / Standard FK5 (years) RADECSYS= 'FK5 ' / Coordinate reference frame EXPTIME = 10.0 / Corrected to ndit = 1 MJD-OBS = 55516.04624834 / Obs start DATE-OBS= '2010-11-16T01:06:35' / Observing date UTC = 3994.0 / 01:06:34.000 UTC at start (sec) LST = 300.578 / 00:05:00.578 LST at start (sec) PI-COI = 'NOVA ' / PI-COI name. OBSERVER= 'NOVA ' / Name of observer. ORIGFILE= 'MICADO_IMG_OBS320_0013.fits' CHIP_ID = 'MICADO_SIM_CHIP' FILT_ID = 'MICADO_SIM_FILT' CTYPE1 = 'RA---TAN' CTYPE2 = 'DEC--TAN' CRVAL1 = 150.000000000000 CRVAL2 = -30.0000000000000 CRPIX1 = 2048.000 CRPIX2 = 2048.000 CD1_1 = -8.3333333333333e-07 CD1_2 = 0.00000000000000E+00 CD2_1 = 0.00000000000000E+00 CD2_2 = 8.33333333333333e-07 TEL_LAT = -24.6157 TEL_LONG= -70.3976 TEL_ELEV= 2530.0 TEL_ZONE= 4.0 OBS_ID = 507435 OBS_DID = 'ESO-VLT-DIC.OBS-1.11' OBS_GRP = '0 ' OBS_NAME= 'MICADO-SIM1' OBS_PID = '179.A-2004(C)' OBS_STRT= '2010-11-16T00:45:15' TPL_CATG= 'SCIENCE ' TPL_DID = 'NOVA-ELT-DIC.TPL-1.9' TPL_NEXP= 24 TPL_ID = 'MICADO_img_obs_tile6' TPL_INDX= 3 TPL_NAME= 'MICADO-SIM-observation' TPL_SEQ = 'MICADO-SIM-seq' TPL_STRT= '2010-11-16T01:05:48' TPL_STGY= 'Unknown ' TPL_TECH= 'IMAGE,JITTER' TPL_TYPE= 'OBJECT ' TPL_VERS= '$Revision: 0.0 $' AIRMEND = 1.0 AIRMSTRT= 1.0 CREADATE= '2013-10-30T17:18:53.000' END