Viewing fits files

[Bill Cotton]

dgb at doplar.wa.astro.gov.au writes:
 > I am putting togther an photography project for my astronomical
 > society.  I got hold of some graphic inages of objects of interest from
 > the Digitial Sky Survey site but I cannot not find a viewer.  I would
 > like to view the fits images believing them to be more detailed than the
 > images in the gif format.  Is there anywhere on the net I get get a
 > simple fits viewer.    
 > 

   You don't say what operating system you're using but the FITSview
family of viewers (http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~bcotton/fitsview.html)
covers Windows, WIndows95/NT, Macintosh and Unix/X-Windows.

-Bill Cotton