[daip] Re: FITS problem

[Eric Greisen]

Lloyd Higgs writes:
 > Hi Eric,
 > 
 > Some years ago, I wrote local DRAO software to put Canadian Galactic Plane Survey 
 > data into FITS format (both image data and visibility data) and thought that it
 > was working!! I am now retired and seldom at the Observatory. Lately, I
 > have been told that there have been problems reading image FITS data here using
 > AIPS (although other packages read it fine), and we have received a report from
 > India that they cannot read visibility data using AIPS (Dec 03 version). I
 > find it very difficult to interpret AIPS error messages in order to find what
 > is wrong (if anything) with our software or FITS parameters, especially for
 > visibility data. Would it be possible for you or some other AIPS guru to look 
 > at the error messages, or better still, to try reading our FITS files with
 > the latest AIPS, and tell us what might be wrong at our end? If so, I could
 > pass this on to a member of our staff, probably Andrew Gray, for further
 > discussion.
 > 

Of course - point me at some FITS files.  It is curious that we do not
read them and others do...

Eric Greisen