This message is to report that effective 9 August 2004, the IAU FITS Working Group (see http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/iaufwg/iaufwg.html) has voted to approve 2...

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

Mark, I only played a minor role in the development of this Grouping convention, but here is my take on the issues you raised: Mark Calabretta wrote: *...

This is a brief reminder about the FITS conventions that are currently being considered for the Registry of FITS Conventions...

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...

Walter Jaffe wrote: 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...

Doug, The Hinode satellite project is now publicly distributing FITS data files with this DUMP extension. They apparently saw the DUMP extension name in...

As I recall, the definition of "deprecate" was carefully crafted to satisfy the radio interferometry community. The reason for deprecating random groups was...

Robert Hanisch wrote: The description of the HIERARCH convention is inconsistent, I think, regarding the length of the component tokens. At the top of...

Rob Seaman wrote: 4) Yes, but that boat has sailed. The community has been on a course to deal with inheritance since this note from the image extension...

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...

ANNOUNCEMENT: START OF FORMAL PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD This is to announce the official start of the 4-week formal Public Comment Period on 2 proposals...

ADASS 2004 FITS BoF on Sunday Afternoon --------------------------------------- The FITS Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session at this year's ADASS meeting...

This is a reminder that 2 FITS proposals are currently in the "Public Comment Period" stage of their respective formal approval cycles. Due to the renewed...

The FITS Support Office Web site now offers a new service for verifying the format of any FITS data file. The URL to this web page...

Announcement of IAU-FWG Approval of the FITS WCS Paper III I am pleased to announce that the 22 members of the IAU FITS Working Group have unanimously...

The 4 regional FITS committees were recently asked to vote on 4 questions to provide guidance to the IAU FITS Working Group on whether it should modify the...

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

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

Robert Hanisch wrote: The more general HIERARCH convention that is described in the last half of the document disallows spaces in the "effective...