[fitsbits] New DUMP FITS extension

Maren Purves m.purves at jach.hawaii.edu
Thu Aug 16 17:54:16 EDT 2007


Doug,

Doug Tody wrote:
> 
> My personal view on the more general question is that Image should
> only be used for image data, and it is a trick to stuff arbitrary
> binary blobs in something called an Image. 

But every multi-object spectrograph and every IFU does that on-chip
already. And consider raster-scanning in radio/submm.
Where do you want to draw the line?

Aloha,
Maren



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