[fitsbits] CTYPEx in SDFITS

[William Pence]

Tom,

There was some discussion of this issue here back in early April.  I'm 
planning to modify the FITS verifier to not complain about this usage of 
the WCS keywords since it has been widely used for many years (as part 
of the Green Bank convention).  It may be a couple months however before 
I find the time to work on this.

Bill Pence

Tom Kuiper wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I ran a draft SDFITS-format file through the FITS File Verifier at 
> http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_verify.html and I got errors for having 
> CTYPE1 ... CTYPE4 in the extension header.  If I have understood the 
> SDFITS convention, then it is allowed to have CTYPEx as a header keyword 
> while the corresponding CRVALx and CRPIXx are column names.  So who is 
> right?
> 
> My file is accepted by ASAP so I'm not too worried.  I'm just curious.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tom

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