Here are some comments on the Foreign File Encapsulation proposal. 1. I'm not familiar with the "MEF" acronym. From the context, I assume it means something...

This is to announce the start of the Public Comment Period on the "Foreign File Encapsulation" FITS convention that has been submitted by the IRAF group at...

On Friday 29 September 2006 23:14, William Pence wrote: This convention defines a new FITS extension type with XTENSION= 'FOREIGN ' ... This Public...

Folks: This is a modified version of an email I sent earlier to the fitswcs mailing list. I thought it probably made sense to open up the discussion to the...

Are there any sample files available demonstrating the use of pixel lists? -- William Thompson NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Code 612.1 Greenbelt, MD ...

William Thompson wrote: Are there any sample files available demonstrating the use of pixel lists? There is one at...

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...

Is there a small command line tool which checks whether a FITS file contains NANs? I know this can be done using IDL (and certainly other high-level...

Dear group, Does anyone know of a FITS IO library for Octave? Thanks and regards Tom

This is to announce the start of the 30-day public comment period on the "Tiled Image Compression" FITS convention that has been submitted for inclusion in...

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I have software that requires all spectrographic images be in FITS for processing. Im working in Windows XP. Is there a jpeg to fits converter? I got one off...

Hello, I have this idea regarding the sun energy and I would like to know what you think of it. The article below contradicts the usual explanation for the...

Hi I've been writing some C programs to manipulate FITS files from AIPS, usinf CFITSIO. I've been testing it on single channel FITS files from AIPS and a...

This FITS software is fantastic. I must learn how to use it. Richard Nacamuli Richard L. Nacamuli

Hi. Is there a way using the cfitsio "extended file name syntax" to extract a 2D plane from a 3D FITS image? I see how I can do other sorts of slicing, like...

This is a reminder that the public comment period on the "Tiled Image Compression" FITS convention will officially end next Friday, Feb 23. William Pence...

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Hello, Is there a more or less standard way of recording uncertainties in FITS headers. Especially for WCS headers, I would like to be able to include into...

Paper I of the WCS series covers the issue of uncertainty description for coordinates. See A&A, 395, 1061-1075. Eric Greisen