colormap picking for paper, using skymodel

[teuben]

the fitscmap script can be used to quickly make a few example png for a beauty contest.
skymodel.fits may not be appropriate (it has no negatives).
Peter will use an observed version and try out a few (e.g. sky0 from QAC)

[teuben]

The official skymodel is now skymodel-a with 2 added 0.1 Jy pointsources: http://admit.astro.umd.edu/~teuben/QAC/skymodel-a.fits

[teuben]

FYI: if you ever want to use your favorite colormap in ds9, and it's not yet in ds9 (only viridis is in it) you can load any old RGB text table in ds9 using color -> colormap parameters -> file -> load colormap
I have a python script in https://github.com/teuben/nemo/blob/master/data/lut/mklut that creates such tables.
If anybody knows a more efficient way, please reply here as well.

[adeleplunkett]

The vote settled on cmr.rainforest, with CMRmap as runner-up. For testing plots, you can use anything (even CASA imager), but for the final paper one person can generate all of the moment map images using the same color map.

The assessments team (Alvaro) should choose a color scheme for their maps that looks nice with cmr.rainforest.