Preben Grosbol wrote: I still have reservation concerning BITPIX=64 for the following reasons: 1) there seems no good physical reason for 64-bit integer...

William Pence writes: Preben Grosbol wrote: I still have reservation concerning BITPIX=64 for the following reasons: 1) there seems no good...

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...

I noticed that the WCS Paper III mentions that there's a pending motion before the FITS committees to make the TDIMn keyword official. I was wondering...

One of the changes that was made in the new 3.0 version of the FITS Standard document was to delete Appendix B, which described 2 conventions for storing...

Many years ago, before all the perl and Tcl and other scripting languages, I produced a little unix-oriented script for extracting FITS keyword values from the...

This is an update on the status of the proposed new Standard document that precisely defines the required format for FITS data files. A draft of the...

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...

(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...

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,...

This is to announce the start of the 30-day Public Comment Period on the OIFITS convention for optical interferometry data that has been submitted for...

This is to announce the start of the 4-week formal Public Comment Period on the paper "Mapping on the HEALPix grid" by Mark Calabretta and Boud Roukema. A link...

This is to announce the start of the 30-day Public Comment Period on the FITS Interferometry Data Interchange (FITS-IDI) Convention for the interchange of data...

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...

ANNOUNCEMENT: Start of the Public Comment Period on the FITS MIME type proposal This is to announce the official start of the 4-week formal Public...

This is to announce the start of the 30-day Public Comment Period on the Euro3D FITS convention. This convention has been submitted for inclusion in the...

ANNOUNCEMENT: Start of the Public Comment Period on the FITS 64-bit Integer proposal This is to announce the official start of the 4-week formal Public...

This is to announce the start of the 30-day Public Comment Period on the CONTINUE keyword convention that has been submitted for inclusion in the 'Registry of...

While I think this is a useful convention, I note that this introduces an implicit ordering of FITS headers, i.e. they have to be read in a certain order if...