The nominal WCS uses the image dimensions, the telescope pointing direction, and a nominal plate scale shown in bold type.
$ > imhead i17h.fits SIMPLE = T / FITS STANDARD BITPIX = -32 / FITS BITS/PIXEL NAXIS = 2 / NUMBER OF AXES NAXIS1 = 251 / NAXIS2 = 239 / ORIGIN = 'KPNO-IRAF' / DATE = '18-08-96' / IRAFNAME= 'i17h.imh' / NAME OF IRAF IMAGE FILE IRAF-MAX= 0.000000E0 / DATA MAX IRAF-MIN= 0.000000E0 / DATA MIN IRAF-BPX= 32 / DATA BITS/PIXEL IRAFTYPE= 'REAL ' / PIXEL TYPE WCSDIM = 2 LTM1_1 = 1. LTM2_2 = 1. WAT0_001= 'system=physical' WAT1_001= 'wtype=linear' WAT2_001= 'wtype=linear' LTV1 = -7. LTV2 = -7. NCOMBINE= 2 INT_S = 20. DEC = -25:15:01.90 RA = 5:47:56.50 PLTSCALE= 1.16 EPOCH = 2000. EQUINOX = 2000. SECPIX = 1.16 HISTORY New copy of i17h[6:256,6:244] END