On Wed 2006-04-26T09:24:16 -0700, Marshall Perrin hath writ: But first I need to actually be sure I understand what the standard is! So do we all. Paper...

An important consideration is what will the recipients of your FITS files expect or can hasndle. If they're going to be using certain applications packages,...

On Wed, April 26, 2006 9:25 am, Malcolm J. Currie wrote: My preference was not to have a Stokes axis, because each element measures a different...

On Wed 2006/04/26 09:24:16 MST, Marshall Perrin wrote in a message to: WCS Paper I defines a 'STOKES' axis convention for...

This is to announce that the regional and IAU FITS committees have recently approved a resolution to officially recognize the HEALPix spherical projection as...

Hello Friends, I have downloaded the precompiled CFITSIO binary file for Borland C++ from http://heasarc.nasa.gov/fitsio/fitsio.html. I included the header...

Hello again, A new version of the Perl interface to William Pence's cfitsio subroutine library is available. For more information on cfitsio,...

Is there a simple way to inherit the primary header when using fits_hdr2str and wcspih ? The particular case being, EQUINOX and RADESYS are in the primary...

The gateway between the sci.astro.fits newsgroup and the fitsbits moderated email list is still broken and is only working in 1 direction. Email messages sent...

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Subject: cfitisio/wcslib inheritance Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 10:01:11 +0100 From: Peter Bunclark Organization: University of...

On Wed 2006/05/31 14:43:55 -0400, William Pence wrote in a message to: FITSBITS forwarded from the sci.astro.fits...

Announcement of a new "Registry of FITS Conventions" Since the invention of the FITS data format in the the late 1970s, many informal FITS conventions have...

Work on the next release of the NOAO Science Archive has caused me to revisit an earlier selection of gzip (which itself was the result of an exercise in...

Rob Seaman wrote: updating an HDU does not necessarily update the checksums. Failing this, the checksum convention mandates that the CHECKSUM and DATASUM...

On Wed 2006/07/12 12:23:53 MST, Rob Seaman wrote in a message to: 5) Note that I have not talked about compression algorithms at all. Has...

This is to announce the start of the Public Comment Period on the FITS "Column Limits" keyword convention that has been submitted for inclusion in the...

This convention seems reasonable and has apparently been in use for some 13 years. I have no objections. Bob On 7/14/06 1:43 PM, "William Pence"...

On Tue 2006/07/18 16:42:28 MST, Rob Seaman wrote in a message to: I now mostly use bzip2 (GPL, bzip.org), it usually outperforms gzip...