On Aug 6, 2007, at 6:24 AM, Kevin Thomas wrote: We need a "Don't Make Me Think" policy with the FITS format. More standards might benefit from users and...

Looking at the current vs. proposed definitions of what it means to say that a structure is "deprecated" in FITS, and considering some of the discussion on...

On Mon 2007/08/27 11:32:19 -0400, Michael Williams wrote in a message to: Thierry Forveille and copied to:...

If the registry serves to bring order to chaos, it will be a net positive. If it serves, rather, to advertise conventions willy- nilly, it may be a net...

Robert Hanisch wrote: ..I believe II share some responsibility for the invention of HIERARCH (I think I first suggested it at a FITS WCS meeting in...

Just for those who don't know the background of the HIERARCH keywords: ESO stores the 'state' of all its instrument subsystems in a tree-form, hierarchal...

On Mon 2007-09-17T14:45:34 +0530, Sreenath K R hath writ: I have jpeg image and I would like to convert it into fits format. Kindly do let me know how to...

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:45:34 +0530, "Sreenath K R" said: I have jpeg image and I would like to convert it into fits format....

Isac, You should be able to convert JPEG into FITS with Aladin (http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/aladin-f.gml) with the condition of providing an astrometry for...

sorry, didn't mean to send this to Bill (Pence) only. Maren Purves wrote: Bill, I read this like Bill Thompson. The fact that the standard requires ...

The way we solved fixing the order of HISTORY keywords in headers of Chandra FITS files was to reserve the last 8 characters for a sequence label (3 chars) +...

Does anyone who uses WCSLIB 3.x or 4.x use the backwards-compatibility macros for the projection, linear transformation or spherical transformation routines of...

Rob Seaman wrote: .. google FITS: .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITS from which we find, for instance, that "FITS is the most commonly used ...

In a private message, Norman Gray (Leicester Univ, UK) has corrected some of the statements in my posting. Don Wells wrote: Rob Seaman wrote: ...

Sporge flooding of sci.astro.fits will commence in a few hours. This will render sci.astro.fits useless. For an example, see Sci.Crypt. Supernews filters...

Actually it should probably be 1.3, but 3.0 if you prefer! On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Boud Roukema wrote: On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Doug Tody wrote: If we ever...

On Fri 2007/08/17 13:18:40 -0400, William Pence wrote in a message to: FITSBITS For example, version 2.0 of the FITS Standard introduced...

Regarding versioning - I don't think FITS has changed enough to warrant versioning. The changes being discussed are minor, and of limited consequence since...

On Sun 2007-08-19T20:40:45 -0600, Doug Tody hath writ: Regarding versioning - I don't think FITS has changed enough to warrant versioning. I agree. The...

Hello, I just found a curiosity: FITS files having CDELTn axis set to zero. This may look strange, but when the corresponding NAXISn is 1, this should be...