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

Archie Warnock awarnock at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 16 14:10:58 EDT 2004


William Pence <William.D.Pence at nasa.gov> wrote in
news:mailman.1090000561.25719.fitsbits at listmgr.cv.nrao.edu: 

> 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.

Fascinating, especially because I recall Don Wells telling us at least 20 
years ago that the standardization process would bring support for FITS 
into commercial products.  He was right - it just took a tiny bit longer 
than we expected. <g>

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Archie

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