Subject: Correction to FITS binary table paper

From: NAKATSUKA at GROSSC.GSFC.NASA.GOV
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 11:46:29 -0500 (EST)

To anyone who has picked up the Astronomy and Astrophysics paper, "Binary
Table Extension to FITS," by Cotton, Tody, and Pence, at

       ftp://fits.cv.nrao.edu/fits/documents/standards/bintable_aa.ps

please note that a small correction should be made in the second paragraph of
Section 3, "Table Header," which reads:

                  A table header consists of one or more 2880 8-bit
            byte logical records each containing 36 80-byte "card
            images" in the form:
                          keyword = value / comment
            where the keyword begins in column 1 and contains up to
            eight characters and the value begins in column 10 or
            later.

The text should say that the value begins in column _11_ or later, as columns
9 and 10 should contain the characters "= ".

                                    - Roy Nakatsuka
                                      Code 668.1
                                      Goddard Space Flight Center
nakatsuka at grossc.gsfc.nasa.gov