On Mon 2009-04-06T22:24:59 -0700, Rob Seaman hath writ: It sounds like the Herschel reference is equivalent to a standard defined by source code. For the...

Also, there is an archive of all the postings to fitswcs available at http://listmgr.cv.nrao.edu/pipermail/fitswcs/ To avoid confusion and needless...

On Apr 6, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Robert Hanisch wrote: This reference is a tribute to Peter Bunclark, I think, and in his memory it would be nice to let it...

On Mon 2009-04-06T21:41:00 -0400, Robert Hanisch hath writ: I looked up the reference to Gregorius (1582). You can find it, in Latin, via Google. the...

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 16:20:05 -0700, Rob Seaman said: The intent is that this discussion be carried on through even...

On Mon 2007-08-06T22:54:59 +0930, Kevin Thomas hath writ: How does one know how many 2880 byte chunks preceed the image data???? That question is answered...

On Aug 6, 2007, at 6:24 AM, Kevin Thomas wrote: We need a "Don't Make Me Think" policy with the FITS format. More standards might benefit from users and...

In a private message, Norman Gray (Leicester Univ, UK) has corrected some of the statements in my posting. Don Wells wrote: Rob Seaman wrote: ...

On Thu 2007-08-16T17:22:29 +0200, eggpap hath writ: how to know programmatically if a fit/fits extension file is a true fit file? The quickest test is the...

On Aug 16, 2007, at 8:30 AM, Steve Allen wrote: On Thu 2007-08-16T17:22:29 +0200, eggpap hath writ: how to know programmatically if a fit/fits extension...

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Lucio Chiappetti wrote: This is a test to see if I can post to fitsbits "cloaking" my e-mail address. Since the previous test using...

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...

A couple of additional comments. First, there is no requirement that the reference pixel is at the center of the IF band. Second, there is no reason to...

On Wed 2009-05-06T14:25:53 -0400, Arnold Rots hath writ: And, of course, one may prefer barycentric over LSR velocities when working on extragalactic...

Doesn't Lindegren & Dravins cover the radio case as well? The definition is mentioned in Eq. 8. The only thing missing from the paper, as far as I can tell, is...

The way we solved fixing the order of HISTORY keywords in headers of Chandra FITS files was to reserve the last 8 characters for a sequence label (3 chars) +...

On May 23, 2007, at 7:48 AM, Mark Taylor wrote: I agree it makes sense in human terms to view a tile-compressed FITS file as an image. However the...