[fitsbits] FITS Liberator (article on space.com)

[Peter Teuben]

I am hoping a GIMP plugin would also become available. I don't know enough about
Photoshop to judge what it would take. 

Looking at the list of authors, I am really surprised that they took Photoshop,
where gimp is in many ways superior (and available for all platforms :-) and
more programmable (if you don't mind the lisp-like language). I recall speaking
to Zolt about it at ADASS, but they were obviously not so interested in a GIMP
version.

- peter

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Don Wells wrote:

> Dear friends of FITS,
> 
> It has come to my attention that a FITS-related article was posted to
> space.com yesterday. See
> 
>     http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/fits_liberator_040708.html
> 
> During the past 25 years there must have been some other FITS-related
> press releases, but I don't remember any.  This one appears to be
> technically correct (a rarity in press releases, in my experience).
> I expect that many amateur astronomers will read this article.
> 
> The current draft of the MIME-code RFC already cites one URL for an
> Adobe Photoshop plugin for FITS.  Presumably we should add a FITS
> Liberator URL.
> 
> -Don
>