Astro::FITS::HdrTrans module
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What is it?
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Astro::FITS::HdrTrans and associated sub-classes are tools for translating 
instrument-specific FITS headers into generically named headers.

Requirements
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The Astro::FITS::HdrTrans module has minimal requirements on other 
modules; only Carp and Time::Piece are required. Instrument-specific
sub-classes of Astro::FITS::HdrTrans may require other modules to be
installed, depending on the transformations those sub-classes make.
As an example, the translation sub-class for IRIS2 (an imaging
spectrometer used at the Anglo-Australian Telescope) requires
Math::Trig in order to do zenith distance to airmass translations.

Adding Subclasses
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Adding subclasses to do translations for other instruments should
be fairly straight-forward. Detailed documentation can be found
in the Astro::FITS::HdrTrans::Base class.

Where can I get it?
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The package is available from CPAN <http://www.cpan.org/>.

Installation
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Installation is automated using the ExtUtils::MakeMaker library

    % perl Makefile.PL
    % make
    % make test
    % make install

Authors 
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The module was written by Brad Cavanagh <b.cavanagh@jach.hawaii.edu> and
Tim Jenness <t.jenness@jach.hawaii.edu> of the Joint Astronomy Centre
(JAC) in Hawaii.

Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council.
All Rights Reserved. 

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple
Place,Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA

Maintainer
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The package is currently maintained by Brad Cavanagh 
<b.cavanagh@jach.hawaii.edu>.

Changes
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 v0.01 - initial test release to CPAN

 v0.02 - Change licence in README to be same as Perl.
         Add copyright statement.
         Add requirement on Test::More and Time::Piece to Makefile.PL.

 v0.03 - Licence should have been GPL