From owner-fitsbits at kochab.cv.nrao.edu Tue Feb 9 09:13:10 1999 Received: (from majordom at localhost) by kochab.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8/CV-2.2) id JAA17815 for fitsbits-spinner; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 09:10:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from fits.cv.nrao.edu (dwells at fits.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.8]) by kochab.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8/CV-2.2) with ESMTP id JAA17810 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 09:10:09 -0500 (EST) Received: (from dwells at localhost) by fits.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8/CV-2.2) id JAA23582 for fitsbits at majordomo.cv.nrao.edu; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 09:10:09 -0500 Received: from fits.cv.nrao.edu (root at fits.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.8]) by kochab.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8/CV-2.2) with ESMTP id SAA08294 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 18:53:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from newsfeed.cv.nrao.edu (newsfeed.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.17]) by fits.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8/CV-2.2) with ESMTP id SAA22244 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 18:53:12 -0500 Received: (from news at localhost) by newsfeed.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8/CV-2.2) id SAA16709; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 18:51:33 -0500 To: fitsbits at fits.cv.nrao.edu Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 00:51:18 +0100 From: "Stefan Kraus" Message-ID: <36bf7889.0 at news.zeitung-online.net> Path: newsfeed.cv.nrao.edu!newsgate.duke.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!btnet-peer!btnet!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!newsfeed.ecrc.net!newsfeed2.ecrc.net!news.zeitung-online.net!p160.mea.zeitung-online.net Subject: FITS-Format Newsgroups: sci.astro.fits Sender: owner-fitsbits at kochab.cv.nrao.edu Precedence: bulk Hello Everyone! I want to integrate the FITS-Format in my own Astronomy-program. Know anyone a URL with a PASCAL or BASIC-Sample-Source-Code for reading and/or writing FITS-Image-Files? Many thanks in advance... Stefan Stefan_Kraus at gmx.net From owner-fitsbits at kochab.cv.nrao.edu Fri Feb 12 09:18:56 1999 Received: (from majordom at localhost) by kochab.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8/CV-2.2) id JAA15192 for fitsbits-spinner; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:16:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from fits.cv.nrao.edu (dwells at fits.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.8]) by kochab.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8/CV-2.2) with ESMTP id JAA15187 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:16:07 -0500 (EST) Received: (from dwells at localhost) by fits.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8/CV-2.2) id JAA12295 for fitsbits at majordomo.cv.nrao.edu; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:16:06 -0500 Received: from fits.cv.nrao.edu (root at fits.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.8]) by kochab.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8/CV-2.2) with ESMTP id EAA11538 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 04:34:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from newsfeed.cv.nrao.edu (newsfeed.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.17]) by fits.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8/CV-2.2) with ESMTP id EAA11712 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 04:34:10 -0500 Received: (from news at localhost) by newsfeed.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8/CV-2.2) id EAA16616; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 04:33:57 -0500 To: fitsbits at fits.cv.nrao.edu Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:30:38 +0100 From: Patrick Chevalley Message-ID: <36C3F4BE.C17126C9 at sig-ge.cg> Organization: Swisscom IP+ (post doesn't reflect views of Swisscom) Path: newsfeed.cv.nrao.edu!newsgate.duke.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-ge.switch.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!not-for-mail References: <36bf7889.0 at news.zeitung-online.net> Subject: Re: FITS-Format Newsgroups: sci.astro.fits Sender: owner-fitsbits at kochab.cv.nrao.edu Precedence: bulk This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------3D85920641F73130D46E7214 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You can find attached here two PASCAL sample of code that I use in some of my programs to read and write two dimension FITS image files. This is not a general FITS library, but only simples examples and you must add support for the keywords you want. I cut it from my application code and some variables or routines may be undefined. 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(newsfeed.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.17]) by fits.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8/CV-2.2) with ESMTP id VAA06705 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 21:00:21 -0500 Received: (from news at localhost) by newsfeed.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8/CV-2.2) id UAA05188; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 20:59:10 -0500 To: fitsbits at fits.cv.nrao.edu Date: 20 Feb 1999 01:57:26 GMT From: pln at egret1.stanford.edu (Patrick L. Nolan) Message-ID: <7al4q6$giq$1 at nntp.Stanford.EDU> Path: newsfeed.cv.nrao.edu!newsgate.duke.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!not-for-mail Subject: Are 3-digit exponents OK? Newsgroups: sci.astro.fits Sender: owner-fitsbits at kochab.cv.nrao.edu Precedence: bulk I'm working on porting cfitsio to a new compiler. This compiler has an eccentricity that worries me. When it prints floating-point numbers, as in FITS headers, it always uses three digits in the exponent. For example, it prints "1.3E+001" rather than the familiar "1.3E+01". I have looked through a recent Users' Guide to FITS, and it doesn't seem to have anything to say on this issue. Is this going to break anyone's FITS reader? -- * Patrick L. Nolan * * W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL) * * Stanford University * From owner-fitsbits at kochab.cv.nrao.edu Sun Feb 21 19:50:54 1999 Received: (from majordom at localhost) by kochab.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8/CV-2.2) id TAA08662 for fitsbits-spinner; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 19:46:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from fits.cv.nrao.edu (dwells at fits.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.8]) by kochab.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8/CV-2.2) with ESMTP id TAA08657 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 19:46:51 -0500 (EST) Received: (from dwells at localhost) by fits.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8/CV-2.2) id TAA12988 for fitsbits at majordomo.cv.nrao.edu; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 19:46:50 -0500 Received: from fits.cv.nrao.edu (root at fits.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.8]) by kochab.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8/CV-2.2) with ESMTP id LAA06962 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 11:02:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from primate.cv.nrao.edu (primate.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.67]) by fits.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8/CV-2.2) with ESMTP id LAA12047 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 11:02:39 -0500 Received: (from egreisen at localhost) by primate.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5/CV-2.3) id LAA22838; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 11:02:34 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 11:02:34 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199902211602.LAA22838 at primate.cv.nrao.edu> From: Eric Greisen MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: pln at egret1.stanford.edu (Patrick L. Nolan) Cc: fitsbits at fits.cv.nrao.edu Subject: Re: Are 3-digit exponents OK? Newsgroups: sci.astro.fits In-Reply-To: <7al4q6$giq$1 at nntp.Stanford.EDU> References: <7al4q6$giq$1 at nntp.Stanford.EDU> X-Mailer: VM 6.35 under Emacs 20.2.1 Sender: owner-fitsbits at kochab.cv.nrao.edu Precedence: bulk Patrick L. Nolan writes: > I'm working on porting cfitsio to a new compiler. This compiler has > an eccentricity that worries me. When it prints floating-point numbers, > as in FITS headers, it always uses three digits in the exponent. > For example, it prints "1.3E+001" rather than the familiar "1.3E+01". > > I have looked through a recent Users' Guide to FITS, and it doesn't > seem to have anything to say on this issue. Is this going to break > anyone's FITS reader? > -- > * Patrick L. Nolan * > * W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL) * > * Stanford University * > I have reviewed the new NOST 100-1.2 (11/98) Definition of FITS which attempts to spell out Fortran formats rather than forcing modern FITS users to know details of old languages. The use of 3 digits does not violate anything in the NOST document. It does violate the ANSI Fortran 77 standard which states that Ew.d and Dw.d formats will produce e.g. E+01 so long as the xponent abs value is < 99 and a form e.g.+123 (no E) for larger exponents. There is the little used format code Ew.dEe whereby you can in principle force the number of exponent digits so that Ew.dE2 would give the familiar form. Eric Greisen From owner-fitsbits at kochab.cv.nrao.edu Mon Feb 22 12:58:00 1999 Received: (from majordom at localhost) by kochab.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8/CV-2.2) id MAA19710 for fitsbits-spinner; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:57:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from fits.cv.nrao.edu (dwells at fits.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.8]) by kochab.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8/CV-2.2) with ESMTP id MAA19705 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:57:38 -0500 (EST) Received: (from dwells at localhost) by fits.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8/CV-2.2) id MAA14611 for fitsbits at majordomo.cv.nrao.edu; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:57:37 -0500 Received: from fits.cv.nrao.edu (root at fits.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.8]) by kochab.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8/CV-2.2) with ESMTP id MAA19690 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:55:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from palantir.cv.nrao.edu (tismail at palantir.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.254]) by fits.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8/CV-2.2) with ESMTP id MAA14594 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:55:12 -0500 Received: (from tismail at localhost) by palantir.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA11058 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:55:11 -0500 Received: from wheelo.gsfc.nasa.gov(128.183.50.20) by palantir.cv.nrao.edu via smap (V1.3) id sma011038; Mon Feb 22 12:55:09 1999 Received: from tetra.gsfc.nasa.gov (tetra.gsfc.nasa.gov [128.183.16.178]) by wheelo.gsfc.nasa.gov (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA17844; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:49:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from tetra.gsfc.nasa.gov by tetra.gsfc.nasa.gov (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA19455; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:48:46 -0500 Message-ID: <36D1987D.29A5A84C at tetra.gsfc.nasa.gov> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:48:45 -0500 From: William Pence Organization: NASA/GSFC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Patrick L. Nolan" CC: fitsbits at fits.cv.nrao.edu Subject: Re: Are 3-digit exponents OK? References: <7al4q6$giq$1 at nntp.Stanford.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-fitsbits at kochab.cv.nrao.edu Precedence: bulk Patrick L. Nolan wrote: > > I'm working on porting cfitsio to a new compiler. This compiler has > an eccentricity that worries me. When it prints floating-point numbers, > as in FITS headers, it always uses three digits in the exponent. > For example, it prints "1.3E+001" rather than the familiar "1.3E+01". > > I have looked through a recent Users' Guide to FITS, and it doesn't > seem to have anything to say on this issue. Is this going to break > anyone's FITS reader? I agree with Eric Greisen that the FITS standard allows 3-digit exponents. Also, CFITSIO supports 3-digit exponents. This issue is mainly a potential problem for applications programmers when writing to E or D columns in FITS ASCII tables. For example, trying to write -12.0 to a column with TFORM = 'E8.1', expecting to write the string '-1.2E+01' into the table, will fail on platforms that generate 3 digit exponents since the formated value will be 9 characters long. Similarly, FITS reading programs which display the values of any floating point value (not just from ASCII tables) in exponential format may have problems if they assume the exponent is only 2 digits long. -Bill Pence ____________________________________________________________________ Dr. William Pence pence at tetra.gsfc.nasa.gov NASA/GSFC Code 662 HEASARC +1-301-286-4599 (voice) Greenbelt MD 20771 +1-301-286-1684 (fax) From owner-fitsbits at kochab.cv.nrao.edu Thu Feb 25 13:22:56 1999 Received: (from majordom at localhost) by kochab.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8/CV-2.2) id NAA10518 for fitsbits-spinner; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:21:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from fits.cv.nrao.edu (dwells at fits.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.8]) by kochab.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8/CV-2.2) with ESMTP id NAA10513 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:21:45 -0500 (EST) Received: (from dwells at localhost) by fits.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8/CV-2.2) id NAA23195 for fitsbits at majordomo.cv.nrao.edu; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:21:45 -0500 Received: from fits.cv.nrao.edu (root at fits.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.8]) by kochab.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8/CV-2.2) with ESMTP id MAA10362 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:32:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from newsfeed.cv.nrao.edu (newsfeed.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.17]) by fits.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8/CV-2.2) with ESMTP id MAA23089 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:32:27 -0500 Received: (from news at localhost) by newsfeed.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8/CV-2.2) id MAA25138; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:32:04 -0500 To: fitsbits at fits.cv.nrao.edu Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 16:45:10 GMT From: elson at poboxes.com Message-ID: <7b3umk$3ng$1 at nnrp1.dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion Path: newsfeed.cv.nrao.edu!chaos.aoc.nrao.edu!lynx.unm.edu!fugu!feeder.swcp.com!nntp.mainstreet.net!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.cwix.com!204.238.120.130!news-feeds.jump.net!nntp2.dejanews.com!nnrp1.dejanews.com!not-for-mail Subject: Conversion from tiff Newsgroups: sci.astro.fits Sender: owner-fitsbits at kochab.cv.nrao.edu Precedence: bulk I have multiple (2D) tiff files which I would like to combine into one 3D fits image. Anyone know of software (PC or Unix) which will do this? Please email your response to elson at magus.jpl.nasa.gov TIA -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own