BaseCoordinateFrame#

class gwcs.coordinate_frames.BaseCoordinateFrame[source]#

Bases: ABC

API Definition for a Coordinate frame

Attributes Summary

`axes_names`	Names describing the axes of the frame.
`axes_order`	The position of the axes in the frame in the transform.
`axes_type`	An upcase string describing the type of the axis.
`axis_physical_types`	The UCD 1+ physical types for the axes, in frame order.
`name`	The name of the coordinate frame.
`naxes`	The number of axes described by this frame.
`reference_frame`	The reference frame of the coordinates described by this frame.
`unit`	The units of the axes in this frame.
`world_axis_object_classes`	The APE 14 object classes for this frame.
`world_axis_object_components`	The APE 14 object components for this frame.

Attributes Documentation

axes_type#

An upcase string describing the type of the axis.

Known values are "SPATIAL", "TEMPORAL", "STOKES", "SPECTRAL", "PIXEL".

axis_physical_types#: The UCD 1+ physical types for the axes, in frame order.

reference_frame#

The reference frame of the coordinates described by this frame.

This is usually an Astropy object such as SkyCoord or Time.

world_axis_object_classes#

The APE 14 object classes for this frame.