Convention regarding inclination sign

[VChristiaens]

Hi @tomasstolker, first thanks for making this very nice and well-documented package public! I am sure it will be very useful to the community!
I was wondering what was the convention re: +/- sign in front of the inclination, in terms of where the near/far side of the disc is located in those respective cases.
Based on your LkCa15 example, am I right to assume that the part of the disc located counter-clockwise from the PA of semi-major axis is the far (resp. near) side when the sign is positive (resp. negative)?
Sorry if this information is provided somewhere and I missed it. Otherwise, I'd suggest to add it in the description of the inclination parameter. Thanks again!

[tomasstolker]

Hi @VChristiaens,

Good to hear that diskmap has been useful!

Based on your LkCa15 example, am I right to assume that the part of the disc located counter-clockwise from the PA of semi-major axis is the far (resp. near) side when the sign is positive (resp. negative)?

Yes that is correct. So for an inclination of 0-90 deg and a position angle of 0 deg, the near side will be on the right side of the image. By increasing the position angle, the mapping will rotate in counter-clockwise direction. To be sure, the easiest is to check the _radius.fits file with using a somewhat large inclination. In that case the distances on the near side will show up as more strongly compressed compared to the far side.

Thanks for pointing that out. I will make a note in the documentation!