Subject: Japanese FITS Committee supports new FITS proposals

From: Nishimura Shiro <rnishim at c1.mtk.nao.ac.jp>
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 93 16:34:27 JST

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          kanamitu at fukuoka-edu.ac.jp
Yasuhiro MURATA          murata at vsop.isas.ac.jp
Eiji NISHIHARA           onishih at c1.mtk.nao.ac.jp
Shiro NISHIMURA (Chair)  rnishim at c1.mtk.nao.ac.jp
Toshiyuki SASAKI         osasak2 at c1.mtk.nao.ac.jp
Shigeomi YOSHIDA         yoshida at kiso.ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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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