Action #497
Updated by Knödlseder Jürgen over 11 years ago
It should be verified if the GPointing base class is really needed. Is there anything common to a pointing definition that needs really be exposed globally?
For many cases, a pointing is simply a constant sky direction, and it would be sufficient for a GObservation implementation to keep this sky direction information locally. For other cases, such as Fermi/LAT, the pointing changes rapidly with time, hence the pointing is a time dependent sky direction.
Again, the main question is: do we need to expose the pointing direction on a general level, or is it sufficient for the derived class GObservation to handle the pointing internally.
For many cases, a pointing is simply a constant sky direction, and it would be sufficient for a GObservation implementation to keep this sky direction information locally. For other cases, such as Fermi/LAT, the pointing changes rapidly with time, hence the pointing is a time dependent sky direction.
Again, the main question is: do we need to expose the pointing direction on a general level, or is it sufficient for the derived class GObservation to handle the pointing internally.