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

[William Pence]

Don Wells wrote:
>
> 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 developers of this FITS plug-in for Photoshop told me that there were 
15000 downloads in less than a week.  This suggests that there is a strong 
interest outside of the professional astronomer community for viewing FITS 
images.

Bill Pence
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