The ADASS abstracts are online (rather early it seems to me - good work), and some of the usual suspects have a presentation on the results of the IAU...

ADASS is coming up soon, and we expect to submit the FITS MIME Internet Draft for official review by the FITS committees in about a month. As before, the...

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) ...

Folks: I have a question about the CROTAi keywords. I know that the WCS papers deprecate their use, but they're still extremely popular. We've always been...

According to Table 2 in WCS Paper I, all the keywords for the pixel list representation of an image include the table column number as part of the keyword...

The following comments about the FITS binary table proposals from Arnold Rots and Preben Grosbol may be of general interest, so I'm reposting this here to the...

On Thu 2004-10-21T10:00:52 -0600, Eric Greisen hath writ: I did not suggest that we need to avoid files 2 GByte in size, just constructs like 64-bit...

Just a few fairly minor questions which probably reveal my great ignorance. Concerning the issue of restricting image/fits to two non-degenerate coordinate...

William Thompson wrote: FITS folks: I'm pleased to announce that my paper, "Coordinate systems for solar image data", which applies the FITS World...

Mark's announcement of WCSLIB 3.3 reminds me to ask a generic question about an issue I'm sure others have faced: how best to switch from an IRAF environment...

I have to agree with some of the earlier comments that there should be a requirement to describe the conventions in computer readable form, e.g. XML. The...

Announcement of a new "Registry of FITS Conventions" Since the invention of the FITS data format in the the late 1970s, many informal FITS conventions have...

Jonathan is quite correct that when duplicated keywords appear with different values, it is not in general possible to know which value was intended. On Fri,...

Hello all, I've been writing polarimetric FITS files for some time now with no regards for how others do things, but I'm presently revising my old code and...

Somewhat belatedly on my part, here is an update on the status of the FITS Interferometry Data Interchange (FITS-IDI) Convention. As you may recall, this...

Work on the next release of the NOAO Science Archive has caused me to revisit an earlier selection of gzip (which itself was the result of an exercise in...

Are they any downloadable examples of FITS files which use the spectral WCS conventions proposed in paper III? I think it would be useful for modifying FITS...

Are there any sample files available demonstrating the use of pixel lists? -- William Thompson NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Code 612.1 Greenbelt, MD ...

SAOImage DS9: Astronomical Image Display Public Release 5.0 15 Oct 2007 Summary --------- We are pleased to announce the availability of the new public...

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