"Cities of Babylon" refers to China. From January 2007 to 2008 in October on Radio Free Asia, I am forced China to become a country ruled by law, I half-way to...

SAOImage DS9: Astronomical Image Display Public Release 5.5 23 Jan 2009 Summary --------- We are pleased to announce the availability of the new public...

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...

Notice of a new FITS image compression publication and related softwa A paper entitled "Lossless Astronomical Image Compression and the Effects of Noise"...

A new FITS convention for representing arrays of strings within a FITS binary table has been submitted for public comment to the Registry of FITS conventions...

Dear Friends of FITS, I consider March 28th to be the birthday for FITS, because it was on March 28, 1979, that Eric Greisen and I completed the Basic FITS...

FITS WCS Paper V: Time ====================== Draft is available for comment ------------------------------ I have the pleasure, on behalf of the team of...

Howdy, On Apr 2, 2009, at 2:57 PM, Arnold Rots wrote: FITS WCS Paper V: Time ====================== Draft is available for comment ...

I like the reference to Gregorius, 1582. The VOEvent standard references Tycho, 1573. I looked up the reference to Gregorius (1582). You can find it, in...

On Mon 2009-04-06T21:41:00 -0400, Robert Hanisch hath writ: I looked up the reference to Gregorius (1582). You can find it, in Latin, via Google. the...

On Mon 2009-04-06T22:24:59 -0700, Rob Seaman hath writ: It sounds like the Herschel reference is equivalent to a standard defined by source code. For the...

On Apr 6, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Robert Hanisch wrote: This reference is a tribute to Peter Bunclark, I think, and in his memory it would be nice to let it...

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 16:20:05 -0700, Rob Seaman said: The intent is that this discussion be carried on through even...

Also, there is an archive of all the postings to fitswcs available at http://listmgr.cv.nrao.edu/pipermail/fitswcs/ To avoid confusion and needless...

SAOImage DS9: Astronomical Image Display Public Release 5.6 15 Apr 2009 Summary --------- We are pleased to announce the availability of the new public...

Greetings from Mauna Kea. I've used the version of CLASS installed on the CSO VAX to convert CLASS data files to FITS BINTABLE format. I was led to believe...

ok, gently then. The crux is the (english) language I guess: "index along axis 1 varies most rapid' ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ wihch refers to how an array...

Hello folks, I'm a simple sort of chap, so I have a simple question! g Reading the IAUFWG v3 (2008 July 10) documentation for the Primary Data Array (page...

We are pleased to announce the first public beta release of APLpy, a python module that makes it easy to interactively produce publication-quality plots of...

A couple of additional comments. First, there is no requirement that the reference pixel is at the center of the IF band. Second, there is no reason to...