As is customary, there will be a FITS "Birds of a Feather" (BoF) discussion session at the ADASS meeting in Quebec City on Tuesday, November 4th. This is a...

SAOImage DS9: Astronomical Image Display Public Release 5.3 15 Oct 2008 Summary --------- We are pleased to announce the availability of the new public...

Hi everyone, I've been using WCSLIB to convert some pixel coordinates to world coordinates in a photometry calibration program that I'm currently developing,...

Dear Bill Pence and FITS community, reading about the proposed SIP conventions I would like to draw your attention to the most commonly seen, pure optical...

I have read also the HTML doc of the TNX convention (AFTER I sent the previous comment on the SIP convention). Again, formally, the TNX convention fulfills...

I have looked at the submitted document. I had also a quick glance to WCS Paper IV (by the way, why is it still in draft status since such a long time...

(If you respond to this, please CC me, because I am *not* on FITSBITS.) Here are a few cents of mine; I will ask Dustin Lang to follow up as well. I warn you...

Dick Shaw wrote: Regarding the proposed Simple Imaging Polynomial (SIP) convention for representing non-linear image distortions: 1. The document...

Douglas S. Brenner wrote: Hope I'm in the right place. I have a fits file with the desired header in the first HDU test.fits and the data in the...

This is to announce the start of the 30-day Public Comment Period on the FITS Region File convention which has been submitted for inclusion in the Registry of...

On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, wrote: Does anyone know of a CLASS to SDFITS converter? CLASS itself can write SDFITS files, and to my knowledge...

Does anyone know of a CLASS to SDFITS converter? Regards Tom

Regarding the proposed Simple Imaging Polynomial (SIP) convention for representing non-linear image distortions: 1. The document should specify default...

080917 Dear Bill Pence and FITS community, reading about the proposed SIP conventions I would like to draw your attention to the most commonly seen,...

This is to announce the start of the 30-day Public Comment Period on 2 FITS conventions that deal with geometric distortions in images. The first convention,...

Douglas S. Brenner wrote: Hope I'm in the right place. I have a fits file with the desired header in the first HDU test.fits and the data in the...

Hope I'm in the right place. I have a fits file with the desired header in the first HDU test.fits and the data in the second test.fits. I need to combine...

William Pence wrote: The question below regarding WCS keyword usage was sent to the FITS support office. Is Table 8.1 in the FITS Standand incorrect? ...

The question below regarding WCS keyword usage was sent to the FITS support office. Is Table 8.1 in the FITS Standand incorrect? ...

I'd rearrange the Definition to say earlier what a REGION table is and offers, for anyone else who might wish to adopt this convention. At the moment the...