The IAU FITS WG Testfiles
This collection of test files has been produced by Preben
Grosbøl (see
announcement), the Chairman of the IAU FITS Working
Group, to facilitate final interoperability testing for the proposed
BINTABLE and IMAGE extensions to the FITS standard. The first 12 of
these files were in an earlier testfile set which Grosbøl
produced (see
README-92) for tests of interoperability of IEEE floating
point. Grosbøl's
README-93 plus the 14 FITS test files were FTP-ed from the master
copy at
ftp://ftphost.hq.eso.org/incoming/data/tests/* on October 19, 1993
by Don Wells. The files test various features of the FITS data format,
from the simplest cases to some of the most complex (IEEE infinities
& NaNs, BINTABLE, IMAGE), separately and in combinations.
The *.list files in the list below are header listings produced by
program
listfits. The *.fits files are binary, not text! Select
"bin" mode in FTP. When using X-Mosaic, select "Binary Transfer Mode"
in the "Options" menu before selecting a "fits" item, then un-select
binary after the file transfer.
- tst0001.{list,fits}
-- Simple 8-bit integer ramp
- tst0002.{list,fits}
-- Simple 16-bit integer file with 3 axes
- tst0003.{list,fits}
-- Simple 32-bit integer file
- tst0004.{list,fits}
-- Simple 32-bit integer file with scaling
- tst0005.{list,fits}
-- Simple 32-bit IEEE Floating Point file
- tst0006.{list,fits}
-- Simple 64-bit IEEE Floating Point file
- tst0007.{list,fits}
-- Test 32-bit IEEE Fp special values
- tst0008.{list,fits}
-- Test 64-bit IEEE Fp special values
- tst0009.{list,fits}
-- TABLE + IMAGE
- tst0010.{list,fits}
-- BINTABLE + IMAGE
- tst0011.{list,fits}
-- IMAGE + TABLE
- tst0012.{list,fits}
-- 32+BNTBL+UNKNWN+IMGE+TBLE
- tst0013.{list,fits}
-- Image with ESO HIERARCH keywords
- tst0014.{list,fits}
-- Sample of ESO-MIDAS BINTABLE
Problems with these files should be reported to
pgrosbol@eso.org, dwells@nrao.edu,
iaufwg@www.cv.nrao.edu or to the sci.astro.fits
newsgroup. Problems with this FITS archive should be reported to:
Last updated 1999-08-26 by dwells@nrao.edu