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tangent plane
noun
Given a point P on a surface M, the tangent plane of M at point P, denoted by TP(M), is the plane passing through P which contains the tangent lines of all the curves on M passing through P.
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The neighbor's least-squares tangent plane is estimated.
This keeps the information about the tangent plane and the optical axis consistent with WCS.
The y aspect offset [pixels] for the tangent plane coordinate system appropriate to the detector.
Note: In the first catalog release, the source region is defined on a tangent plane projection.
Note: In the first catalog release, the elliptical aperture is defined on a tangent plane projection.
Note: In the first catalog release, the source extent is defined on a tangent plane projection.
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The only WCS projection system supported by ChIPS is the tangent-plane system.
At present this should either be a LINEAR2DTransform or WCSTransform object that contains a tangent-plane projection.
This allows you to display the contours of an image that is not in the tangent-plane projection.
Images and contours can be displayed for data which contains a 2D linear transform or a WCS tangent-plane projection.
In this example we show how you can create a pair of axes that display a tangent-plane projection, in this case read in from a file.
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