PDS_VERSION_ID = PDS3 RECORD_TYPE = STREAM ^PS_DOCUMENT = "FITSINFO.PS" ^LATEX_DOCUMENT = ("FITSINFO.TEX", "FITSINFO.STY", "FITSINFO.IND") ^ASCII_DOCUMENT = "FITSINFO.ASC" OBJECT = PS_DOCUMENT DOCUMENT_NAME = "Definition of the Current FITS Standard - NOST 100-1.1" DOCUMENT_TOPIC_TYPE = FILE_DESCRIPTION INTERCHANGE_FORMAT = BINARY DOCUMENT_FORMAT = POSTSCRIPT FILES = 1 PUBLICATION_DATE = 1995-09-29 ABSTRACT_TEXT = "The Flexible Image Transport System, or FITS, is the format adopted by the astronomical community for data interchange and archival storage. The FITS Support Office at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/) is responsible for documenting the FITS standard, participating in its evolution, and advising NASA astrophysics missions on how to present their data in FITS format. The Definition of FITS is a codification into a formal standard, by the NASA/Science Office of Standards and Technology (NOST), of the FITS rules endorsed by the IAU. In developing this standard, some contradictions and ambiguities in the original FITS papers have been eliminated. The current standard, version 1.1, was approved as a NOST standard on September 29, 1995. It covers the material in the first four FITS papers and the Floating Point Agreement, but not the binary table and image extensions or the blocking agreement." DESCRIPTION = "This document describes version 1.1 of the FITS file format standard. It was downloaded from the NASA's FITS Support Office Home Page at http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/ on July 17, 1998. This document is provided in three formats: Postscript, LaTeX, and ASCII. This particular file was found on line at http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/fits/fits_standard.ps This document has been provided by the NASA FITS Support Office and Astrophysics Data Facility, as a service of the NASA/Science Office of Standards and Technology (NOST) at the National Space Science Data Center. These entities are organizations within the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. Consult the FITS Support Office Home Page for updates." END_OBJECT = PS_DOCUMENT OBJECT = LATEX_DOCUMENT DOCUMENT_NAME = "Definition of the Current FITS Standard - NOST 100-1.1" DOCUMENT_TOPIC_TYPE = FILE_DESCRIPTION INTERCHANGE_FORMAT = ASCII DOCUMENT_FORMAT = LATEX FILES = 3 PUBLICATION_DATE = 1995-09-29 ABSTRACT_TEXT = "The Flexible Image Transport System, or FITS, is the format adopted by the astronomical community for data interchange and archival storage. The FITS Support Office at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/) is responsible for documenting the FITS standard, participating in its evolution, and advising NASA astrophysics missions on how to present their data in FITS format. The Definition of FITS is a codification into a formal standard, by the NASA/Science Office of Standards and Technology (NOST), of the FITS rules endorsed by the IAU. In developing this standard, some contradictions and ambiguities in the original FITS papers have been eliminated. The current standard, version 1.1, was approved as a NOST standard on September 29, 1995. It covers the material in the first four FITS papers and the Floating Point Agreement, but not the binary table and image extensions or the blocking agreement." DESCRIPTION = "This document describes version 1.1 of the FITS file format standard. It was downloaded from the NASA's FITS Support Office Home Page at http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/ on July 17, 1998. This document is provided in three formats: Postscript, LaTeX, and ASCII. The following files make up the full LaTeX source for this document: FITSINFO.TEX LaTeX source, on line as fits_standard.tex. FITSINFO.STY LaTeX style file, on line as nost.sty but referenced within the LaTeX source as nost1p1.sty. FITSINFO.IND LaTeX index file, on line as fits_standard.ind. This document has been provided by the NASA FITS Support Office and Astrophysics Data Facility, as a service of the NASA/Science Office of Standards and Technology (NOST) at the National Space Science Data Center. These entities are organizations within the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. Consult the FITS Support Office Home Page for updates." END_OBJECT = LATEX_DOCUMENT OBJECT = ASCII_DOCUMENT DOCUMENT_NAME = "Definition of the Current FITS Standard - NOST 100-1.1" DOCUMENT_TOPIC_TYPE = FILE_DESCRIPTION INTERCHANGE_FORMAT = ASCII DOCUMENT_FORMAT = ASCII FILES = 1 PUBLICATION_DATE = 1995-09-29 ABSTRACT_TEXT = "The Flexible Image Transport System, or FITS, is the format adopted by the astronomical community for data interchange and archival storage. The FITS Support Office at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/) is responsible for documenting the FITS standard, participating in its evolution, and advising NASA astrophysics missions on how to present their data in FITS format. The Definition of FITS is a codification into a formal standard, by the NASA/Science Office of Standards and Technology (NOST), of the FITS rules endorsed by the IAU. In developing this standard, some contradictions and ambiguities in the original FITS papers have been eliminated. The current standard, version 1.1, was approved as a NOST standard on September 29, 1995. It covers the material in the first four FITS papers and the Floating Point Agreement, but not the binary table and image extensions or the blocking agreement." DESCRIPTION = "This document describes version 1.1 of the FITS file format standard. It was downloaded from the NASA's FITS Support Office Home Page at http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/ on July 17, 1998. This document is provided in three formats: Postscript, LaTeX, and ASCII. This particular file was found on line at http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/fits/fits_standard.txt This document has been provided by the NASA FITS Support Office and Astrophysics Data Facility, as a service of the NASA/Science Office of Standards and Technology (NOST) at the National Space Science Data Center. These entities are organizations within the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. Consult the FITS Support Office Home Page for updates." END_OBJECT = ASCII_DOCUMENT END