[fitsbits] Draft WCS Paper V: Time

[William Thompson]

Rob Seaman wrote:

>> unless we had a FITS file somehow documenting the supernova of 1054,  
>> or something like that.
> 
> It is not unlikely that such a file, for instance a table or  
> simulation, would be created and used within a research or outreach  
> context.  The standard needs to support such cases.  There is no irony  
> here.

I agree.  There are eclipse records that go back that far.  I've also seen 
papers discussing comet observations from that period or earlier, which discuss 
the possible relationships between those comets and the Kreutz group.

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