Mark Calabretta wrote: On Thu 2007/04/12 14:19:11 +0200, "Lucio Chiappetti's NoSpam Newsreading accoun t" wrote in a message to:...

On July 4th, the International Earth Rotation Service (IERS) announced that the first leap second in seven years will be issued at the end of December...

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

Mike Nolan a écrit : We're trying to data formats a new spectral instrument. It will produce binary tables in a vaguely SDFITS-like format, with a table...

Hi Mark - I agree that this can be a useful approach when one wants to implement a higher dimensional model which can handle lower dimensional cases as...

Hi Bill - I'm not sure I understand: this DUMP extension was proposed, but has never been specified or implemented? If this is the case, it doesn't...

Perhaps this EXTTYPE convention should be written up and submitted to the Registry of conventions. That is my intention as I said to you at the last...

I've got a load of .fts files (from the SOHO archive) that I need to study, but I'm having trouble finding a viewer that will open them. When I searched for...

I have no new suggestions on how to handle "old" FITS files with multiple keyword occurances, but we might consider a convention to reduce the problem in the...

Lets assume there exists a silicon-based life: #1. what are the most common chemical reactions that we would observe in a silicon-based life? #2. What are the...

Does anyone know how the situation is today for the fameous 28 cm refractor in Dorpat (now Tartu) made by Joseph Fraunhofer in 1825? The instrument survived...

Folks: I've started to put together a software package to implement the World Coordinate System in IDL. The software is oriented toward solar data,...

On Thu 2007-08-16T15:51:18 -0400, William Pence hath writ: The question is what do we (the FITS community in general, and the IAUFWG in particular) do...

I agree with Thierry that there are many files which have repeated keywords, but I agree with another poster that there are existing implementations...

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...

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...

Hi all, does anybody know how to delete a table column from a fits binary table extension in a python script, under pyraf/stsdas/pyfits or whatever? There...

Arecibo Observatory radio telescope data are using the variable length array convention for the primary data. The raw data are written this way for speed and...

Just glancing through the proposal, I noticed that it continues to misuse EXTNAME, although understandable given an omission from the generalized extensions...

On Wed 2006/07/19 07:44:15 MST, Rob Seaman wrote in a message to: 1) market penetration - gzip is a clear leader here I agree that 7zip...