Dear FITSbits-readers, What would be reasonably standard formats for multi-readout, multi-amplifier data? In this case a 4-amplifier near-IR array in...

Greetings, WCSLIB 4.2 is now available from http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~mcalabre. The main developments in this release a several bug fixes for...

The 4 regional FITS committees were recently asked to vote on 4 questions to provide guidance to the IAU FITS Working Group on whether it should modify the...

I have a question about what world coordinate system (WCS) keywords to use for some image data that do not fit neatly into any of the three categories listed...

In April the Internet Engineering Steering Group informed Don Wells and me that the FITS MIME Internet Draft had become RFC 4047. At that point the MIME media...

FITS Experts, A new Spitzer data product will be appearing on the public shelves later this fall. It is a spectral cube constructed from IRS observations of...

Greetings, WCSLIB 4.1 is now available from http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~mcalabre. This release contains much added functionality, particularly for parsing FITS...

I am trying to write code for FITS and I am planning on sticking the data in PDS. They would like it to have a tdisp keyword for my fields. The only problem...

Announcement of IAU-FWG Approval of the FITS WCS Paper III I am pleased to announce that the 22 members of the IAU FITS Working Group have unanimously...

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We would like to write several images in the same file. I don't know much about fits, but from what I've read, the standard supports data dimensions upto 999....

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On July 4th, the International Earth Rotation Service (IERS) announced that the first leap second in seven years will be issued at the end of December...

William Pence writes: Preben Grosbol wrote: I still have reservation concerning BITPIX=64 for the following reasons: 1) there seems no good...

Preben Grosbol wrote: I still have reservation concerning BITPIX=64 for the following reasons: 1) there seems no good physical reason for 64-bit integer...

This note concerns a relatively small technical issue in the larger proposal to add 64-bit integer support to FITS: At issue is whether to reverse the recent...