Subject: Japanese FITS Committee supports new FITS proposals

From: Nishimura Shiro <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1993 07:34:27 GMT

I am glad to announce the result of voting for new FITS proposals by 
the Japanese FITS Committee.

IMAGE Extension ;   yes: 5,  no: 0,  unvoted: 1.
  Comments:  Simple and convenient.

BINARY TABLE Extension ;   yes: 6,  no: 0.
  Comments:  It is a natural trend to extend to BINARY TABLE.
             AIPS already adopted this extension.
             It will be easier to look up and treat if character strings
             are NULL terminated.
             Inclusion of the Multidimensional Array Convention is desirable.
             There were divergent opinions for inclusion of the Variable
             Length Array.  It is too complicated.  It will be necessary.

Blocking Factors ;   yes: 6,  no: 0.
  Comments:  Standard procedure should be authorized.
             AIPS adopted 23040 Bytes.

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The Japanese FITS Committee comprises 6 members:

Osamu KANAMITSU          [email-masked]
Yasuhiro MURATA          [email-masked]
Eiji NISHIHARA           [email-masked]
Shiro NISHIMURA (Chair)  [email-masked]
Toshiyuki SASAKI         [email-masked]
Shigeomi YOSHIDA         [email-masked]

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Shiro Nishimura
Astronomical Data Analysis Center
National Astronomical Observatory          Phone: 81-422-34-3709
Mitaka, Tokyo 181, Japan                   Fax  : 81-422-34-3608