[fitsbits] Strange FITS File

[Steve Allen]

On Tue 2003-03-25T11:12:35 -0500, Chris Lawton hath writ:
> Expected File Size = 17280 bytes
>
> However, the actual file size is 20160 (2880 more than expected).
>
> Is it common for fits files to be padded like this?

This seems to be compliant with the FITS standard.  The final
2880-byte block would correspond to a "special record" as permitted in
the standard.

I don't know if it is common, but I would not be surprised if our
software has had off-by-one errors of the sort that would result
in an extra FITS block.

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