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RA HMS string formatting is wrong?

See original GitHub issue

http://docs.astropy.org/en/latest/coordinates/formatting.html

>>> from astropy.coordinates import ICRS
>>> from astropy import units as u
>>> c = ICRS(187.70592*u.degree, 12.39112*u.degree)
>>> str(c.ra) + ' ' + str(c.dec)
'187d42m21.312s 12d23m28.032s'

@hcferguson stated that it should be ‘h’ for RA and not ‘d’?

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bsipoczcommented, Apr 17, 2019

@pllim > Anyways, yeah, I didn’t know I can format it in the other way. Thanks, @bsipocz !

string parsing leaves you some kind of PTSD so it’s easier to remember 😉

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adrncommented, Apr 17, 2019

I think we can close this, because the formatting isn’t “wrong”: it was a design decision to use the input unit, and not assume a default because astronomers have different wants and needs (case in point: @mhvk prefers hours, I prefer degrees 😄).

But the 2nd point @mhvk raised is fair, and we’ve been meaning to lighten the assumptions made about units (see #6184)!

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