This is to announce the start of the 30-day Public Comment Period on 2 FITS conventions that deal with geometric distortions in images. The first convention,...

080917 Dear Bill Pence and FITS community, reading about the proposed SIP conventions I would like to draw your attention to the most commonly seen,...

Regarding the proposed Simple Imaging Polynomial (SIP) convention for representing non-linear image distortions: 1. The document should specify default...

Does anyone know of a CLASS to SDFITS converter? Regards Tom

On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, wrote: Does anyone know of a CLASS to SDFITS converter? CLASS itself can write SDFITS files, and to my knowledge...

This is to announce the start of the 30-day Public Comment Period on the FITS Region File convention which has been submitted for inclusion in the Registry of...

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...

Dick Shaw wrote: Regarding the proposed Simple Imaging Polynomial (SIP) convention for representing non-linear image distortions: 1. The document...

(If you respond to this, please CC me, because I am *not* on FITSBITS.) Here are a few cents of mine; I will ask Dustin Lang to follow up as well. I warn you...

I have looked at the submitted document. I had also a quick glance to WCS Paper IV (by the way, why is it still in draft status since such a long time...

I have read also the HTML doc of the TNX convention (AFTER I sent the previous comment on the SIP convention). Again, formally, the TNX convention fulfills...

Dear Bill Pence and FITS community, reading about the proposed SIP conventions I would like to draw your attention to the most commonly seen, pure optical...

Hi everyone, I've been using WCSLIB to convert some pixel coordinates to world coordinates in a photometry calibration program that I'm currently developing,...

SAOImage DS9: Astronomical Image Display Public Release 5.3 15 Oct 2008 Summary --------- We are pleased to announce the availability of the new public...

As is customary, there will be a FITS "Birds of a Feather" (BoF) discussion session at the ADASS meeting in Quebec City on Tuesday, November 4th. This is a...

This is a reminder that 3 FITS conventions are currently open for public comment: 1) Spatial region file convention 2) SIP image distortion convention 3) ...

"The vast cosmic sea gently mixed with brilliant starlights in one's reflection, while the calm skies enjoyed their morning awakening in the midst of silent...

FYI... as Peter was active in FITS matters on more than one occasion. ------ Forwarded Message From: World Wide Web Date: 11...

I'm using the Cursor Iterator to dump and entire Header into a StringBuffer (perhaps there's an easier way to do this; I simply want to put the entire header...

I'm using Cursor to iterate over a Header. I find that nextCard starts returning cards at the location in the Header at which my last get found a card. For...