Std. date/time/RA/Dec FITS keywords?

Peter Bunclark psb at ast.cam.ac.uk
Thu May 9 12:20:44 EDT 1996


Tim DeBenedictis wrote:
> 
> Greetings all-
> 
> I am writing some astrometry software which needs to run with a variety
> of different FITS-format images.  It would be nice to use the R.A., Dec.,
> date, and time information stored in the images' FITS headers, but
> unfortunately there does not seem to be any standard FITS keywords which
> provide this information...[deletia - mod.]

Read :
<A HREF="http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/documents/documents.html" >FITS
Documents</A>

[moral: check the 'net before pressing "post" - mod.]




More information about the fitsbits mailing list