[fitsbits] Close of "Tiled Image Compression" Public Comment Period

[William Pence]

This is a reminder that the public comment period on the "Tiled Image 
Compression" FITS convention will officially end next Friday, Feb 23.

William Pence wrote:
> This is to announce the start of the 30-day public comment period on the 
> "Tiled Image Compression" FITS convention that has been submitted for 
> inclusion in the "Registry of FITS Conventions" that is maintained by the 
> IAU FITS Working Group.
> 
> A document describing this convention, and some sample FITS files that 
> illustrate its usage are available for public review and comment from the 
> FITS registry web page at
> 
>          http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_registry.html
> 
> Here is a brief description:
> 
> This is a convention for compressing FITS images and storing the compressed 
> byte stream in a variable-length array column in a FITS binary table. 
> Optionally, the image may be divided into rectangular tiles, and each tile 
> is compressed separately. Any number of different compression algorithms can 
> be supported. Current implementations support GZIP, RICE, H-Compress, and 
> the IRAF pixel list compression algorithms.
> 
> Comments may be posted here on the FITSBITS mail exploder or the 
> sci.astro.fits newsgroup.  Minor typographical issues may be sent directly 
> to the authors of the convention.
> 
> Bill Pence
> (on behalf of the IAU FITS Working Group)


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