[fitsbits] INSTRUME, TELESCOP, etc.

Thierry Forveille forveill at cfht.hawaii.edu
Mon Jul 28 14:35:45 EDT 2003


 > William Thompson wrote:
 > I was reviewing a document suggesting keywords to be used in FITS 
 > headers, and I was wondering if there was any kind of defacto standard 
 > beyond that in the FITS definition.  The keywords being suggested were 
 > as follows
 > 
 >     INSTRUME    FITS Standard
 >     TELESCOP    FITS Standard
 > 
 >     DETECTOR    The detector used
 >     INSTITUT    The institution
 >     OBSERVAT    The observatory
 >     NETWORK        I think this keyword is meant to be used for data 
 > taken                 by a network of observatories, such as the GONG 
 > network.
 >             
CFHT uses INSTRUME, DETECTOR, and OBSERVAT. 




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