[fitsbits] FITS Standard 3.0 is Approved.

[William Pence]

Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to announce that the new 3.0 version of the FITS Standard 
document has been officially approved by the IAU FITS working group.  It 
is now available on the FITS Support office website at 
http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_standard.html.

This new 3.0 version contains several substantial changes, such as the 
new section on World Coordinate Systems, as well as hundreds of other 
smaller changes to the text to help clarify many of the topics.  The 
previous 2.1 version of the Standard and the even older NOST 2.0 version 
are now obsolete and contain invalid information, so I strongly urge you 
to always refer to this new 3.0 version whenever there is a question 
about FITS requirements.


regards,

Bill Pence
On behalf of the IAU FITS Working Group
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