From owner-fitsbits at marmoset.cv.nrao.edu Sat Jun 14 09:28:04 1997 Received: (from majdom at localhost) by marmoset.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5: $Revision: 2.2 $) id JAA29499; œSat, 14 Jun 1997 09:28:04 -0400 Received: from fits.cv.nrao.edu (root at fits.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.8]) by marmoset.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5: $Revision: 2.2 $) with ESMTP id RAA25239; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 17:21:02 -0400 Received: from solitaire.cv.nrao.edu (news at solitaire.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.79]) by fits.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.5/8.8.0/CV-2.2) with SMTP id RAA21924 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 17:20:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: by solitaire.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-CV/1.10) id AA09960; Fri, 13 Jun 97 17:20:55 EDT To: fitsbits at fits.cv.nrao.edu Date: 13 Jun 1997 15:49 EDT From: bschlesinger at ndadsc-f.gsfc.nasa.gov (Barry M. Schlesinger) Message-Id: <13JUN199715493969 at nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov> Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Path: solitaire.cv.nrao.edu!newsgate.duke.edu!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!News1.Toronto.iSTAR.net!news.istar.net!ais.net!howland.erols.net!newshub2.home.com!newshub1.home.com!news.home.com!nick.arc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov!bschlesinger Reply-To: fits at ndadsc-f.gsfc.nasa.gov Subject: Sources of FITS Information Newsgroups: sci.astro.fits,sci.answers,news.answers Sender: owner-fitsbits at marmoset.cv.nrao.edu Precedence: bulk Archive-name: astronomy/fits/info-sources Last-modified: 1997/05/05 -------- Sources of FITS Information Preface This material on sources of Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) information is posted and updated periodically by the FITS Support Office at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). It discusses where general FITS information, including some answers to frequently asked questions, can be found, and provides sources for detailed information on FITS software and documentation. ------- FITS Support Office The FITS Support Office maintains a library of FITS information accessible from http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/astro/fits/fits_home.html or ftp://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/fits/. The material available includes o "Definition of FITS", a codification of FITS for the NASA/Science Office of Standards and Technology (NOST), available in LaTeX, uncompressed PostScript, compressed PostScript and (often) ASCII text o "A User's Guide to FITS", published by the FITS Support Office, in LaTeX, and compressed and uncompressed PostScript o Revisions to version 1.0 of the "Definition of FITS" covering the specification of units, which were incorporated into version 1.1 (text) o A current list of the extension type (structure) names registered with the International Astronomical Union FITS Working Group (IAUFWG) (text) o Rules for physical blocking on various media adopted by the IAUFWG (text) In the same directory but accessible directly via http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/astro/fits/basics_info.html is the FITS Basics and Information that used to be regularly posted to sci.astro.fits and sci.data.formats. It continues to be revised to reflect current FITS developments. It contains the following material: o An overview of FITS o A list of FITS documents o A list of software packages that support FITS, including FITS <--> image converters for various platforms o A list of on-line FITS resources o A description of the FITS Support Office The hypertext version provides links to many of the documents, software, and network locations listed. The text version provides information on how to obtain much of this material. There is also a hypertext version of the List of Registered Extensions. Links from the Web page and subdirectories of the ftp directory contain o Software developed by the FITS Support Office. o Error test files: primary HDUs useful for testing the ability of software designed to read FITS files to cope with files that have errors or are non-standard. These files should be downloaded in binary form. Printed copies of the material in the FITS directory can be obtained from the Coordinated Request and User Support Office (CRUSO): (Postal) Coordinated Request and User Support Office Code 633 National Space Science Data Center NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD 20771 USA (Electronic mail) request at nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Telephone) +1-301-286-6695 8:00 A. M. - 4:30 P.M. U. S. Eastern Time (-0500 from the last Sunday in October through the first Saturday in April; -0400 the remainder of the year) When no one is available, messages can be left on voice mail. (FAX) +1-301-286-1635 ------- National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) A FITS Archive can be found at URL http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/ or at ftp://fits.cv.nrao.edu/fits, located at NRAO. This machine supports a WAIS server named nrao-fits which has an index of all of the FITS-related text files in the archive; the file nrao-fits.src is available at ftp://fits.cv.nrao.edu/fits/wais-sources/nrao-fits.src. Some of the more noteworthy materials in this archive are o Text of any detailed proposals currently being discussed by the FITS committees o Drafts of other formally proposed additions to the FITS standard and of potential future proposals o A collection of documents on World Coordinate Systems, including the current draft proposal o Conventions specific to particular projects or disciplines o Software for various environments and Usenet postings about code o Sample data and special test files designed to measure the ability of a FITS reader to handle a wide variety of FITS files o Archives of traffic on FITS-related newsgroups and exploders A separate NRAO site, http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~bcotton/fitsview.html, provides information on the FITSview family of software packages for display of FITS images on Microsoft Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, Apple Macintosh, and Unix/X-Windows, with links to the software. It also links to a number of sources of astronomical FITS images. ------- HEASARC The NASA/Goddard High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) Web server at http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/fits.html and the anonymous ftp access through ftp://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_info/ provide FITS material. HEASARC has developed the FITSIO package of software routines for easily reading and writing FITS files, with FORTRAN and C versions available, portable to a wide variety of machines. There are also the FTOOLS collection of software tools, the VERIFITS FITS conformance verifier, and the fv FITS file viewer and editor. HEASARC software is available directly through http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/tech_res_software.html or ftp://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_info/software/ . The HEASARC server also provides information from the HEASARC FITS Working Group, (HFWG) the internal legislative body on FITS-related matters within the Office of Guest Investigator Programs (OGIP) at NASA/GSFC, at http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/ofwg/ofwg_intro.html or at ftp://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_info/ in the directories ofwg_minutes and ofwg_recomm. The HFWG has developed a number of FITS conventions that are more specific than the requirements of the FITS standards. Proposed conventions are publicized to the FITS community as a whole, with the goal of collaborative development of a set of conventions that will be accepted throughout the community as well as within OGIP/HEASARC. ------- Direct questions about this posting to Barry M. Schlesinger Coordinator, FITS Support Office Electronic mail: fits at nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov Telephone: +1-301-286-2899 The FITS Support Office is operated under the guidance of the NASA/GSFC Astrophysics Data Facility. From owner-fitsbits at marmoset.cv.nrao.edu Sun Jun 15 22:47:05 1997 Received: (from majdom at localhost) by marmoset.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5: $Revision: 2.2 $) id WAA00972; œSun, 15 Jun 1997 22:47:05 -0400 Received: from fits.cv.nrao.edu (root at fits.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.8]) by marmoset.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5: $Revision: 2.2 $) with ESMTP id WAA30835; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 22:32:47 -0400 Received: from solitaire.cv.nrao.edu (news at solitaire.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.79]) by fits.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.5/8.8.0/CV-2.2) with SMTP id WAA01937 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 22:32:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: by solitaire.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-CV/1.10) id AA00942; Sat, 14 Jun 97 22:32:40 EDT To: fitsbits at fits.cv.nrao.edu Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 18:54:09 -0700 From: Jim Cadien Message-Id: <33A34B41.4205FC02 at as.arizona.edu> Organization: GoodNet Path: solitaire.cv.nrao.edu!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!uunet!in2.uu.net!194.162.162.196!newsfeed.nacamar.de!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!news.good.net!news.good.net!news.goodnet.com!news Subject: ftools Newsgroups: sci.astro.fits Sender: owner-fitsbits at marmoset.cv.nrao.edu Precedence: bulk I am new to fits formats, but do have experience with iraf. I wish to use standalone ftools to make fits files from text files that contain only pixel values. I can create a primary image with fimgcreate, but ftools won't do much else with it, such as fstatistic. I need to be able to display the images in fv, as well as do arithmetic. What is the appropriate ftools routine to use? Jim Cadien From owner-fitsbits at marmoset.cv.nrao.edu Mon Jun 16 12:52:01 1997 Received: (from majdom at localhost) by marmoset.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5: $Revision: 2.2 $) id MAA05119; œMon, 16 Jun 1997 12:52:01 -0400 Received: from fits.cv.nrao.edu (root at fits.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.8]) by marmoset.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5: $Revision: 2.2 $) with ESMTP id IAA04259; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 08:13:37 -0400 Received: from solitaire.cv.nrao.edu (news at solitaire.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.79]) by fits.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.5/8.8.0/CV-2.2) with SMTP id IAA03119 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 08:13:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: by solitaire.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-CV/1.10) id AA01620; Mon, 16 Jun 97 08:13:29 EDT To: fitsbits at fits.cv.nrao.edu Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 15:17:59 -0700 From: "Cesar S. Gonzalez" Message-Id: <339F2417.10B1 at larc.nasa.gov> Organization: USN Path: solitaire.cv.nrao.edu!newsgate.duke.edu!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!sdd.hp.com!night.primate.wisc.edu!reznor.larc.nasa.gov!not-for-mail Reply-To: c.s.gonzalez at larc.nasa.gov Subject: compiling fitsio in fortran powerstation Newsgroups: sci.astro.fits Sender: owner-fitsbits at marmoset.cv.nrao.edu Precedence: bulk I downloaded the fortran fitsio software from the goddard fits page (administered by William Pence, I believe) and followed the instructions in the user's manual. The final instruction for assembling it on a windows system running dos (I'm using windows NT) was to create the library using link32. There was no link32, so I tried the command lib and also just link. Both work, but I can't even be sure if the library is being created correctly. If you can confirm either that it is or is not, please let me know. Also, if it is, I don't know how to link the library that is created to a file in fortran powerstation. I'd appreciate any help or advice that anyone can give me as I've been searching through on-line manuals and hard copy documentation for days. Thanks, Katie Lofton From owner-fitsbits at marmoset.cv.nrao.edu Wed Jun 18 15:13:22 1997 Received: (from majdom at localhost) by marmoset.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5: $Revision: 2.2 $) id PAA17842; œWed, 18 Jun 1997 15:13:22 -0400 Received: from fits.cv.nrao.edu (root at fits.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.8]) by marmoset.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5: $Revision: 2.2 $) with ESMTP id OAA17798; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:54:19 -0400 Received: from palantir.cv.nrao.edu (tismail at palantir.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.254]) by fits.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.5/8.8.0/CV-2.2) with ESMTP id OAA03651 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:54:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tismail at localhost) by palantir.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA09862 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:58:38 -0400 Received: from wheelo.gsfc.nasa.gov(128.183.50.20) by palantir.cv.nrao.edu via smap (V1.3) id sma009860; Wed Jun 18 14:58:23 1997 Received: from tetra.gsfc.nasa.gov (tetra.gsfc.nasa.gov [128.183.127.109]) by wheelo.gsfc.nasa.gov (8.8.5/8.8.4) with SMTP id OAA22257 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:53:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: by tetra.gsfc.nasa.gov (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA02976; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:53:23 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:53:23 -0400 From: pence at tetra.gsfc.nasa.gov (William Pence) Message-Id: <199706181853.OAA02976 at tetra.gsfc.nasa.gov> To: fitsbits at fits.cv.nrao.edu Subject: FTOOLS 4.0 now available Cc: pence at tetra.gsfc.nasa.gov X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-fitsbits at marmoset.cv.nrao.edu Precedence: bulk FTOOLS Version 4.0 Release A new release of the FTOOLS software package is now publicly available. FTOOLS is a package of more than 200 data analysis programs and Perl and Tcl scripts that operate on FITS format data files. Some of these tasks are very general and may be used on any FITS format file while others are specific to various high-energy astrophysics misssions supported by the HEASARC. Of special note in this release are some new or improved Tcl/Tk tasks that have a graphical user interface (GUI), namely: FLAUNCH - This powerful yet easy to learn customizable graphical interface to all of the FTOOLS is new with this release. It enables the user to call any FTOOL or task, edit its parameter files, and examine the output. FLAUNCH provides extensive on-line help on its own capabilities, as well as providing context sensitive help on any task being examined. FV2.0 - This is a major upgrade over fv1.0 (released with FTOOLS3.6). Fv now has full edit capabilities allowing the user to insert, delete, or modify any FITS header or data value. The plotting and image display capabilites are much improved and the overall speed of the program has been increased. Fv is also available as a separate stand-alone tool for those that are not interested in installing the entire FTOOLS package. The FTOOLS software is supported on most current workstations (including the linux operating system on a PC) and can be built either as a set of stand-alone programs or as a package under IRAF (currently only tested on SUN Solaris systems). This software is freely available from the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) on the FTOOLS Web home page at: http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftools More extensive documentation about FTOOLS is available from the same location. Any questions about FTOOLS should be directed to ftoolshelp at athena.gsfc.nasa.gov. From owner-fitsbits at marmoset.cv.nrao.edu Tue Jun 24 11:43:13 1997 Received: (from majdom at localhost) by marmoset.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5: $Revision: 2.2 $) id LAA14663; œTue, 24 Jun 1997 11:43:13 -0400 Received: from fits.cv.nrao.edu (root at fits.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.8]) by marmoset.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5: $Revision: 2.2 $) with ESMTP id FAA13872; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 05:06:56 -0400 Received: from solitaire.cv.nrao.edu (news at solitaire.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.79]) by fits.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.5/8.8.0/CV-2.2) with SMTP id FAA27734 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 05:06:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: by solitaire.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-CV/1.10) id AA25075; Tue, 24 Jun 97 05:06:48 EDT To: fitsbits at fits.cv.nrao.edu Date: 23 Jun 1997 21:54:15 GMT From: "Marco Cosmacini" Message-Id: <01bc801f$c9094260$cd9d85c2 at marcocosmacini> Organization: Comm2000 - Milan, Italy Path: solitaire.cv.nrao.edu!newsgate.duke.edu!nntprelay.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news-paris.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news!not-for-mail Subject: Help me with fits for Photoshop Newsgroups: sci.astro.fits Sender: owner-fitsbits at marmoset.cv.nrao.edu Precedence: bulk I' m an italian amateur astronomer. I NEED a plugin to read fits image with Adobe Photoshop 4. Can someone help me? Please e-mail: quasar at digibank.it Best Regards, Marco Cosmacini From owner-fitsbits at marmoset.cv.nrao.edu Thu Jun 26 10:07:15 1997 Received: (from majdom at localhost) by marmoset.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5: $Revision: 2.2 $) id KAA30111; œThu, 26 Jun 1997 10:07:15 -0400 Received: from fits.cv.nrao.edu (root at fits.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.8]) by marmoset.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5: $Revision: 2.2 $) with ESMTP id VAA24564; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 21:10:11 -0400 Received: from solitaire.cv.nrao.edu (news at solitaire.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.79]) by fits.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.5/8.8.0/CV-2.2) with SMTP id VAA14309 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 21:10:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: by solitaire.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-CV/1.10) id AA08672; Wed, 25 Jun 97 21:10:03 EDT To: fitsbits at fits.cv.nrao.edu Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 19:22:13 +0200 From: "Venno G.J.S. Cladder" Message-Id: <33B153C5.4409 at net.HCC.nl> Organization: Cladder Computer Service & Euregio Publiekscentrum voor Sterrenkunde Path: solitaire.cv.nrao.edu!newsfeed.cv.nrao.edu!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!uunet!in2.uu.net!206.154.70.8!news.webspan.net!feed1.news.erols.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!fido.news.demon.net!demon!sun4nl!sun4nl!Kijfhoek.NL.net!Utrecht.NL.net!Eindhoven.NL.net!not-for-mail References: <01bc801f$c9094260$cd9d85c2 at marcocosmacini> Reply-To: V.Cladder at net.HCC.nl Subject: Re: Help me with fits for Photoshop Newsgroups: sci.astro.fits Sender: owner-fitsbits at marmoset.cv.nrao.edu Precedence: bulk Hi! Marco Cosmacini wrote: > I' m an italian amateur astronomer. I NEED a plugin to read fits image > with Adobe Photoshop 4. Can someone help me? Please e-mail: > quasar at digibank.it Well, I don't know about a plug-in, but I read that Graphic WorkShop for Windows (ver. 1.1w or x) does the Job of reading and converting it. Have a try at http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/alchemy.html Bye, Venno