[fitsbits] BINTABLE/TABLE column count limitation

Phil Hodge hodge at stsci.edu
Wed Jun 6 07:45:50 EDT 2012


On 06/06/2012 06:57 AM, Mark Taylor wrote:
> There is an acknowledged limitation of 999 on the maximum number of
> columns in a FITS table.

The problem is obvious, and so is the solution:  Change FITS to allow 
keywords longer than eight characters.

Phil




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