Rob Seaman wrote: updating an HDU does not necessarily update the checksums. Failing this, the checksum convention mandates that the CHECKSUM and DATASUM...

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...

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...

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...

Tom, I'll try to address the broader questions you raise about the FITS registry, and leave it to the submitters of the convention to responded to the...

Hi Tom - These are all good comments, but I think we need to be clear on what the registry of FITS conventions is intended to be used for. I thought it was to...

On Wed 2006/07/12 12:23:53 MST, Rob Seaman wrote in a message to: 5) Note that I have not talked about compression algorithms at all. Has...

This is to announce the start of the Public Comment Period on the FITS "Column Limits" keyword convention that has been submitted for inclusion in the...

Hello, I have created a library of FORTRAN routines to create, read, edit, plot, and display FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) image files. Some of the...

This is a test of the sci.astro.fits--fitsbits gateway. There is no need to reply to this message. -Don Wells (co-owner of the fitsbits mailing list)

This is a test of the fitsbits--sci.astro.fits gateway. There is no need to reply to this message. -Don Wells (co-owner of the fitsbits mailing list)

Dear Friends of FITS, Mailing list was created in the late 1980s. Usenet newsgroup sci.astro.fits was created in 1992. A bi-directional...

On Fri 2006-09-29T17:14:31 -0400, William Pence hath writ: http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_registry.html This convention defines a new FITS...

I'm not entirely clear on how the FITS conventions registry is supposed to work. My original concept was that this was to be a way in which FITS data is used...

See this...