On Thu 2007/09/20 22:27:17 CST, Doug Tody wrote in a message to: Mark Calabretta and copied to: Thierry Forveille...

On Thu 2007/09/20 21:01:09 +0200, Thierry Forveille wrote in a message to: "LC's NoSpam Newsreading account" and copied to:...

On Wed 2007/09/19 10:30:04 +0200, Francois Ochsenbein wrote in a message to: ... I always understood that the coordinate value is ...

On Tue 2007-09-18T12:26:21 +0100, David Berry hath writ: Section 2.1.2 of FITS-WCS paper 1 says "Furthermore, all CDELTi must be non-zero." Even if NAXISn...

Section 2.1.2 of FITS-WCS paper 1 says "Furthermore, all CDELTi must be non-zero." Even if NAXISn is 1, that one pixel should still have some width. If any...

Francois, 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 ...

Hi Bill, I'm not sure about the version of fv I was running -- it's on a linux and fv -help does not show the version. I just downloaded the last version...

Hi Mark - I agree that this can be a useful approach when one wants to implement a higher dimensional model which can handle lower dimensional cases as...

On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, wrote: Does anyone know of a CLASS to SDFITS converter? CLASS itself can write SDFITS files, and to my knowledge...

Dick Shaw wrote: Regarding the proposed Simple Imaging Polynomial (SIP) convention for representing non-linear image distortions: 1. The document...

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...

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....

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...

PS: This issue reminded me that there is still something lacking in WCS. For geocentric equatorial coordinates we have RADESYS to tell us what our coordinate...

On Tue 2008/05/27 14:42:55 -0400, Jonathan McDowell wrote in a message to: Dear Jonathan, - since we have talked above about floating...

Bill - good idea, but shouldn't the last sentence be: Note that the reference point may lie outside the image and that the CENTER OF THE first...

Eric, I didn't mean that the other approach was being done in FITS, I know it was done in some non-FITS astronomy data packages (if I remember correctly, the...

In order to bring this discussion to a conclusion and finalize the new FITS Standard document, I suggest 2 small modifications to the previous proposal to...

On Thu 2008/06/12 14:13:44 -0400, William Pence wrote in a message to: FITSBITS 1. Change the first sentence in section 8.1 from ...

On Fri 2008-05-30T12:48:46 +1000, Mark Calabretta hath writ: I don't think that we have any significant points of disagreement. I concur. We also do not...