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Rendering FITS Data by Grinder
This is more of a general question about rendering data to an image, than about FITS data per se. For astronomers, what are some of the more useful...
October 20th 03 08:29 PM
by Grinder Go to last post
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Viewing .fts flies by [email protected]
I've got a load of .fts files (from the SOHO archive) that I need to study, but I'm having trouble finding a viewer that will open them. When I searched for...
March 7th 07 06:26 PM
by Maren Purves Go to last post
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Effective Date? by Rob Seaman
We have a large number of coadded frames to archive. Many of these are coadds of dithered Mosaic camera sets. Some are coadds of images from diverse epochs...
January 24th 04 12:42 AM
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[fitsbits] Start of "Foreign File Encapsulation" Public CommentPeriod by William Pence
This is to announce the start of the Public Comment Period on the "Foreign File Encapsulation" FITS convention that has been submitted by the IRAF group at...
October 10th 06 09:32 AM
by Peter Bunclark Go to last post
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[fitsbits] New owner/moderator for by Don Wells
Dear friends of FITS, I retired from NRAO four months ago, after 40 years on astronomy payrolls. I still have a small office space at NRAO, and I still...
October 1st 04 09:14 PM
by Steve Allen Go to last post
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FITS long integer support (was [fitsbits] ADASS FITS BoFon Sunday) by William Pence
We should perhaps consider adding a short section to the FITS Standard to clarify the status of long (64-bit) integer support in FITS for the benefit of users....
October 22nd 04 08:23 PM
by Eric Greisen Go to last post
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[fitsbits] which WCS keywords? by Phil Hodge
I have a question about what world coordinate system (WCS) keywords to use for some image data that do not fit neatly into any of the three categories listed...
September 19th 05 01:55 AM
by Mark Calabretta Go to last post
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[fitsbits] Start of the FITS Region File Public Comment Period by William Pence[_2_]
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...
September 23rd 08 03:51 PM
by Boud Roukema Go to last post
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[fitsbits] Spectral FITS -- encoding extraction area by Walter Jaffe
For encoding irregular extraction areas, I recommand NOT using a list of polygon vertices, but rather an image, which is much more general and intuitive. So...
February 25th 05 09:30 PM
by William Pence Go to last post
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[fitsbits] FITS Binary Table Proposals by William Pence
In response to the comments received so far during the official Public Comment Period on the proposals to incorporate the TDIMn and variable length array...
November 23rd 04 09:54 PM
by William Pence Go to last post
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[fitsbits] CDELTn by Mark Calabretta
On Wed 2007/09/19 10:30:04 +0200, Francois Ochsenbein wrote in a message to: ... I always understood that the coordinate value is ...
September 21st 07 08:03 AM
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[fitsbits] The CONTINUE and HIERARCH Conventions Public CommentPeriods by William Pence
First, a reminder that the Public Comment Period on the CONTINUE keyword convention will be closing soon. Second, the Public Comment Period on the the ESO...
September 21st 07 08:12 AM
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[fitsbits] BLANK keyword misinterpretation by Steve Allen
We are currently testing of the new CCD mosaic which is being readied for shipment to Keck to replace the old detector in the HIRES spectrograph. The...
November 21st 03 05:42 PM
by Steve Allen Go to last post
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Gateway-Test-02-25a (ignore) by Don Wells
This is a test message, intended to test whether the sci.astro.fits--fitsbits gateway is operational. Please ignore this message. -Don Wells ('owner' of...
March 15th 04 04:39 PM
by Rob Seaman Go to last post
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[fitsbits] Blank strings in FITS keywords. by Tom McGlynn
Here's a little FITS lawyer nit. Section 5.2.1 of the FITS standards document notes that KEYWORD1= '' is distinct from KEYWORD1= ' '
March 1st 05 07:27 PM
by Maren Purves Go to last post
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[fitsbits] Updated FITS-WCS visualisation page by David Berry
A few weeks ago I announced a WWW page which uses the AST library to draw an annotated coordinate grid for a given set of FITS-WCS header cards. I have...
March 17th 04 05:09 PM
by David Berry Go to last post
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[fitsbits] versioning vs. schema -- where does it stop? by Steve Allen
On Thu 2005-06-16T18:32:25 +0200, Francois Ochsenbein hath writ: There was also some suggestion about having a versioning mechanism in FITS -- and it...
June 17th 05 10:33 AM
by LC's No-Spam Newsreading account Go to last post
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[fitsbits] FITS 64-bit Integer Public Comment Period by William Pence
This is a reminder that the Public Comment Period on the proposal to add support for 64-bit integers to the FITS data format is currently open here on the...
June 16th 05 03:32 PM
by Steve Allen Go to last post
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[fitsbits] Start of the WCS Paper III Public Comment Period by William Pence
ANNOUNCEMENT: START OF FORMAL PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD This is to announce the official start of the 4-week formal Public Comment Period on the 3rd in a series...
October 23rd 04 06:10 PM
by Steve Allen Go to last post
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[fitsbits] Format for multi-readout, multi-amplifier data by Saskia Prins
Dear FITSbits-readers, What would be reasonably standard formats for multi-readout, multi-amplifier data? In this case a 4-amplifier near-IR array in...
September 26th 05 01:31 PM
by Howard Bushouse Go to last post
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