[fitsbits] searchable FITS?

[Stephen Walton]

All that I'm doing here is writing simple Python scripts which parse the
ASCII output files of our software for certain values and load them into
a Postgresql database.  This setup appears to work well for us, but the
scripts are very specific to our needs, so I expect they'd do you little
or no good.  Plus I suspect that's not what you meant by a 'relational
store.'

On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 05:48, Jim Vickroy wrote:
> I asked this question because we are considering storing FITS data in 
> a relational store.  This would especially make sense if this (FITS) 
> data (not header units) was searchable.  Do you have any thoughts on 
> the wisdom of doing this?
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> jim vickroy
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: swalton <swalton at CSUN.EDU> sci.astro.fits at csun.edu
> Date: Saturday, November 23, 2002 11:44 am
> Subject: RE: [fitsbits] searchable FITS?
> 
> > There is an extensive literature on this entire issue.  You might 
> > try the 
> > following references, the last one suggested in all humility:
> > 
> > Turmon, Pap, and Mukhtar 2002, ApJ 568, 396.
> > Jones et al. 2000, ApJ 529, 1070
> > Harvey and White 1999, ApJ 515, 812
> > Preminger et al. 1999, Sol. Phys. 202, 53
> > 
> > I know Turmon has made his software available.  We are considering 
> > releasing 
> > ours but it has so many dependencies on our internal IRAF package 
> > that it 
> > would be difficult.  The algorithm is fairly straightforward however.
> > 
> > >===== Original Message From "j vickroy" <jim.vickroy at noaa.gov> =====
> > >Hello,
> > >
> > >Is there software available to search FITS images for features 
> > (e.g., to
> > >detect bright regions in solar images)?
> > >
> > >Thanks.
> > >
> > >
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> > Stephen Walton, Professor
> > Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Northridge
> > stephen.walton at csun.edu
> > 
> > 
> 
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Stephen Walton, Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State
Northridge
stephen.walton at csun.edu