[fitsbits] exposure time - resolution

[Steve Allen]

On Mon 2000-06-05T15:09:02 -0700, Tom Kuiper hath writ:
> >       by sampling pixels?
>
> In this case, if I understand you correctly, the response function is not
> changed.  Data are simply thrown away. (Why would you do that?)

Because I'm dealing with the need to create a postage stamp of a
really large image so that I can throw it onto a display (which is
what I have been doing) or over the web (with intact description of
what's been done to the image characteristics).

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