Use numerical inverse to improve WCS accuracy #110
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There is an issue with the distortion reference files in CRDS such that wcs.world_to_pixel(wcs.pixel_to_world(...)) only inverts at the 0.05 pix level. That makes it impossible to do astrometry better than ~0.05 pix. This replaces wcs.world_to_pixel with wcs.numerical_inverse to avoid this issue. This is slightly slower, so we will restore the original approach when the reference file issue is resolved.