[fitsbits] FIT Keyword data dictionaries

[Tom Kuiper]

> To: fitsbits at cv.nrao.edu
> Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 12:22:12 -0500
> From: Doug Mink <dmink at cfa.harvard.edu>
> Subject: Re: [fitsbits] FIT Keyword data dictionaries
> Newsgroups: sci.astro.fits
...
> Standard keywords describing the observatory geographical position would be
> quite useful.  For example, we use
> 
> SITENAME= 'flwo2   '
> SITELONG= '+110:52:39.0'       /LONGITUDE, DEGREES WEST OF ZERO
> SITELAT = '+31:40:51.4'        /LATITUDE, DEGREES
> SITEELEV=               2320.0 /ELEVATION, METERS
>
I'll endorse that!  I just hadn't gotten that far yet in assembling my data
headers, but we definitely need them.  By the way, they are among the shared
keywords described in the Single Dish Format defined at the 1989 Green Bank
meeting. (See Table 11)

Cheers

Tom