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...

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

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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

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...

This is a reminder that 3 FITS conventions are currently open for public comment: 1) Spatial region file convention 2) SIP image distortion convention 3) ...

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 2 FITS conventions that deal with geometric distortions in images. The first convention,...

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 ...

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. ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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