There are two different issues being discussed he 1) What is a convention, and what is our role in documenting them, and 2) Is the INHERIT...

Hi. Is there a way using the cfitsio "extended file name syntax" to extract a 2D plane from a 3D FITS image? I see how I can do other sorts of slicing, like...

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...

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Hi All, I have a beta version of a FITS thumbnail generator and viewer extension for windows explorer available for free download from...

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Hi to all, how to know programmatically if a fit/fits extension file is a true fit file? Thanks, Emiliano

Harro Verkouter wrote: Hi all, After reading through the document I'd like to make a few comments. Some of those apply to the implementation of...

William Pence wrote: The question below regarding WCS keyword usage was sent to the FITS support office. Is Table 8.1 in the FITS Standand incorrect? ...

Mark Calabretta wrote: On Thu 2008/06/12 14:13:44 -0400, William Pence wrote in a message to: FITSBITS 1. Change the first...

Comments from Bill Cotton

Paper I of the WCS series covers the issue of uncertainty description for coordinates. See A&A, 395, 1061-1075. Eric Greisen

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...

AIPS cannot handle HEALPIX but can someone ? Eric Greisen ------- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) ------- Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type:...

As an old FITS person, let me remind you that FITS is first for data exchange. Since many operating systems and compilers do not support 64-bit integers...

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...

WCS Paper III has gone through a polishing process covering basically all of the text. Things in red are the changes since 6-Dec-2002, blue the changes in the...

While many of you were ADASSing in France, Steve Allen and I were busy rethinking the section on the -TAB non-linear algorithm. Nothing substantive was...

Tom Kuiper wrote: OK, thanks. I haven't participated in one of these before and so I don't know the best way to proceed. I realize that no one might...