Hello, I'm looking to process large ( ~ GB) FITS datacubes. They are large enough not to load into memory. What I would like to do is input the cube, to...

From a discussion on the VO Data Access Layer group: On May 22, 2007, at 6:53 AM, Andreas Wicenec wrote: On 22.05.2007, at 15:29, Thomas McGlynn...

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...

I have no new suggestions on how to handle "old" FITS files with multiple keyword occurances, but we might consider a convention to reduce the problem in the...

hi all, On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Mark Calabretta wrote: For the freedb database 7zip compresses 30% better than gzip and decompresses *faster* than gzip in...

Greetings, It has been quite a while since WCS Paper IV, "Representations of distortions in FITS world coordinate systems", first saw the light of day; though...

One of the proposed changes to the FITS Standard is a complete rewrite of the Appendix F (previously Appendix I) which lists the reserved FITS extension type...

The FITS Support Office Web site now offers a new service for verifying the format of any FITS data file. The URL to this web page...

Dear Friends of FITS, A new version of the RFC draft, dated 2004-03-12 (today), is at http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/fits/mime/ This version incorporates...

Dear friends of FITS, I retired from NRAO four months ago, after 40 years on astronomy payrolls. I still have a small office space at NRAO, and I still...

Dear group, Does anyone know of a FITS IO library for Octave? Thanks and regards Tom

If anyone is interested, I've added a facility to the AST home page to display an annotated coordinate grid from a set of FITS header cards. It could be useful...

We're trying to data formats a new spectral instrument. It will produce binary tables in a vaguely SDFITS-like format, with a table column that contains a data...

Paper III has been accepted by Astronomy and Astrophysics with a "final" version after corrections submitted and accepted by them. See my home web page for...

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

Hi, I've just retrieved a fits file from http://archive.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/dss_form and would like to know the coordinates which the center pixel of this image...

Hi, I've just retrieved a fits file from http://archive.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/dss_form and would like to know the coordinates which the center pixel of this image...

At the behest of some individuals who read the aips output FITS files closely, I made a change so that variables we keep in double precision internally are...

This is to announce the start of the public comment period on proposed changes to update and clarify the "FITS Standard" format definition document. The...

This is a final call to submit any comments or concerns you may have about the proposed changes to the FITS Standard format definition document. The public...