Hi All, I have written an application to read FITS files. I now have an anomaly where some images have a "split" in them. Basically it appears that the...

Hi all, I am a brand new user of CFITSIO and still in the learning stage. I got confused when I tried to use the imcopy.c According to Page 46 of CFITSIO...

I guess we all got so caught up in Paper 3 that we forgot to check back with Paper 1. The problem isn't with the "Green Bank Convention" for degenerate...

Yup. I should have gone on to say that making those keywords into constant valued columns simply shuts up fitsverify, it doesn't make it any more of a valid...

The new FITS Standard document, in table 8.2, defines the keyword naming convention (taken from the WCS papers) that one should use if the image is stored as...

That appears to be the SDFITS convention, which predates the WCS papers and agreements. The WCS information in those tables is unlikely to be widely...

We're writing radio data in binary tables, and fitsverify hates them: 133) fitsverify...

The RXTE archive contains SHA(-1) (FIPS 180-1) digests for all its data products. But, to my knowledge, it has not been used by any users worried about the...

Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce that the new 3.0 version of the FITS Standard document has been officially approved by the IAU FITS working group. ...

Thierry Forveille wrote: Is anyone on the list aware of uses of the MD5 checksum in FITS beyond protection against accidental bitflips from bad...

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Rob Seaman wrote: Apologies if you see this more than once. FYI. A reminder that MD5 has been obsolete for several years. So ...

Hi guys, Apologies if you see this more than once. FYI. A reminder that MD5 has been obsolete for several years. So obsolete that even the U.S. federal...

On Mon 2008-06-16T16:52:34 -0400, William Pence hath writ: If anyone objects to the use of the phrase "regular lattice structure" in that first sentence...

On Mon 2008/06/16 17:36:27 MST, Rob Seaman wrote in a message to: Mark Calabretta and copied to: Eric Greisen ,...

To clarify that, the statement could be changed to "(e.g. as is done for the random parameters using PTYPEn in random groups data)". The whole point is...

On Mon 2008/06/16 07:37:27 MST, Rob Seaman wrote in a message to: Eric Greisen , Mark Calabretta mcalabre@at nf.csiro.au and copied...

On Mon 2008/06/16 08:20:03 CST, Eric Greisen wrote in a message to: Mark Calabretta and copied to: William Pence...

Taking Rob's suggestion, the proposed changes to the new draft FITS Standard are as follows: 1) Insert the following paragraph at the start of Sect. 8.1: ...

Perhaps simply excise "(e.g. as is done for random groups data)"? The less said about random groups, the better :-) Rob -- On Jun 16, 2008, at 7:20 AM,...

Mark Calabretta wrote: On Thu 2008/06/12 14:13:44 -0400, William Pence wrote in a message to: FITSBITS 1. Change the first...