To clarify that, the statement could be changed to "(e.g. as is done for the random parameters using PTYPEn in random groups data)". The whole point is...

On Mon 2008/06/16 17:36:27 MST, Rob Seaman wrote in a message to: Mark Calabretta and copied to: Eric Greisen ,...

On Mon 2008-06-16T16:52:34 -0400, William Pence hath writ: If anyone objects to the use of the phrase "regular lattice structure" in that first sentence...

Hi guys, Apologies if you see this more than once. FYI. A reminder that MD5 has been obsolete for several years. So obsolete that even the U.S. federal...

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Rob Seaman wrote: Apologies if you see this more than once. FYI. A reminder that MD5 has been obsolete for several years. So ...

Thierry Forveille wrote: Is anyone on the list aware of uses of the MD5 checksum in FITS beyond protection against accidental bitflips from bad...

Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce that the new 3.0 version of the FITS Standard document has been officially approved by the IAU FITS working group. ...

The RXTE archive contains SHA(-1) (FIPS 180-1) digests for all its data products. But, to my knowledge, it has not been used by any users worried about the...

We're writing radio data in binary tables, and fitsverify hates them: 133) fitsverify...

That appears to be the SDFITS convention, which predates the WCS papers and agreements. The WCS information in those tables is unlikely to be widely...

The new FITS Standard document, in table 8.2, defines the keyword naming convention (taken from the WCS papers) that one should use if the image is stored as...

Yup. I should have gone on to say that making those keywords into constant valued columns simply shuts up fitsverify, it doesn't make it any more of a valid...

I guess we all got so caught up in Paper 3 that we forgot to check back with Paper 1. The problem isn't with the "Green Bank Convention" for degenerate...

Hi all, I am a brand new user of CFITSIO and still in the learning stage. I got confused when I tried to use the imcopy.c According to Page 46 of CFITSIO...

Hi All, I have written an application to read FITS files. I now have an anomaly where some images have a "split" in them. Basically it appears that the...

I'd rearrange the Definition to say earlier what a REGION table is and offers, for anyone else who might wish to adopt this convention. At the moment the...

The question below regarding WCS keyword usage was sent to the FITS support office. Is Table 8.1 in the FITS Standand incorrect? ...

William Pence wrote: The question below regarding WCS keyword usage was sent to the FITS support office. Is Table 8.1 in the FITS Standand incorrect? ...

Hope I'm in the right place. I have a fits file with the desired header in the first HDU test.fits and the data in the second test.fits. I need to combine...

Douglas S. Brenner wrote: Hope I'm in the right place. I have a fits file with the desired header in the first HDU test.fits and the data in the...