[fitsbits] Start of the Green Bank Keyword Convention Comment Period

[William Pence]

This is to announce the start of the Public Comment Period on the
Green Bank Keyword convention. This FITS convention was developed
at a historic meeting in 1989 at Green Bank, West Virginia to
develop standards for interchange of single dish radio telescope
data.  This convention specifically deals with how to record WCS
information for images that are stored in a vector column of a
FITS binary table, but has since been generalized to have wider
applications.

This is another in a series of conventions that have been submitted
to the Registry of FITS Conventions, which is maintained by the
IAU FITS Working Group.  The main purpose of this public comment
period is to insure that the documentation completely and accurately
describes the convention.

Detailed information about this convention and sample FITS files that
use it are available for public review and comment from the FITS
registry web page at

                http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_registry.html

Comments about this convention may be posted here on the FITSBITS email
exploder or the mirrored sci.astro.fits newsgroup.

Bill Pence
(on behalf of the IAU FITS Working Group)
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