FITS

Don Wells
NRAO

Peter Teuben
UMD

Session ID: B4.01   type: BOF

Abstract:

The tentative agenda for the FITS Birds-of-a-Feather session at ADASS '96 includes:

• report of the NOST/FITS Support Office
• report of the recent NOST panel meeting
• report on the recent year-2000 poll
• polling the FITS user community about some possible changes to or establish common FITS practices which should be cast in stone in the NOST paper
• overview of the sci.astro.fits traffic
• discuss proposed MIME codes for FITS files
• new and/or changed software available to process FITS files
• WCS: a new version is out!
• WCS concerns (Hanisch & Tody: 10 minutes)
• open discussion

Any updates to this agenda will appear on the web page at http://www.astro.umd.edu/~teuben/fits/adass_bof/

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