Space and time ------------------------------- There are two theories or convictions centered around the existence or creation of our present universe,and life...

I have software that requires all spectrographic images be in FITS for processing. Im working in Windows XP. Is there a jpeg to fits converter? I got one off...

Hi, I am new to CFITSIO. If I know the X,Y,Z location in my datacube, then how can I read the value of that location with CFITSIO? Do I have to use...

Hi, Would this be the right way to read a single value from a fits file? (I add to the filename and then read one...

Arecibo Observatory radio telescope data are using the variable length array convention for the primary data. The raw data are written this way for speed and...

080917 Dear Bill Pence and FITS community, reading about the proposed SIP conventions I would like to draw your attention to the most commonly seen,...

Greetings. On 2010 Aug 17, at 20:32, Eric Greisen wrote: Tom Kuiper wrote: The TELESCOP keyword is required in the extension header and its ...

Greetings. At the FITS BoF at ADASS in Boston, I gave a quick presentation on using the FITS-WCS design as an RDF/SemWeb ontology. For completeness, I've...

Evil Aliens from Outer Space are stealing the planets and moons of our solar system ! Yes, Jupiter once had 1092 moons, Saturn had 873 and Neptune and Uranus...

Is the repeat count in TFORM descriptors provided purely for efficiency reasons, or does it have some implications for the logical structure of the data?...

Dear Bill, Thanks for the explanation... follow-up questions below: On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, William Pence wrote: Paddy, In the example you cite below,...

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I've just set up a forum about astronomy. There you can discuss about everything concerning astronomy. There aren't many topics yet, therefore i would ask you...

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, 6 Apr 2009 16:20:05 -0700, Rob Seaman said: The intent is that this discussion be carried on through even...

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In article , Jonathan Thornburg -- remove -animal to reply wrote: In sci.astro.research...

Hi, I have an unused HP Pavilion with the fallowing specs: # Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ (2.1GHz, 2000MT/s System Bus) # Memory: 2048MB PC2-5300 DDR2...

The HDF group at NCSA is implementing a FITS to HDF5 converter. HDF5 is a general purpose library and file format for storing scientific data. We wrote an RFC...

Hello again, A new version of the Perl interface to William Pence's cfitsio subroutine library is available. For more information on cfitsio,...