[fitsbits] FITS reference

[Don Wells]

William Pence writes:
 > As a result of the imminent publication of the NOST FITS Standard
 > in the Astronomy and Astrophysics journal, I'm proposing to update
 > the COMMENT cards that the CFITSIO library writes in the the
 > primary header of every new FITS file that it creates.. I am
 > proposing to [write] a single comment card:
 > 
 > COMMENT FITS format is defined in 'Astronomy and Astrophysics' vol 376 page 359

I think that writing such a COMMENT card into headers should be a
recommended practice for _all_ FITS writing programs and packages.

Are the maintainers of any other FITS writing codes planning to make
this change? 

-Don Wells [Chair, IAU FITS Working Group]
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