[fitsbits] Infinite floats in FITS headers

Peter Weilbacher pweilbacher at aip.de
Mon May 5 10:33:29 EDT 2014


Quick question: what should I do when I have an infinite floating point
value (like INF, NAN) that I want to save into a FITS header?
I do not explicitly) find this case in the FITS specifications.

Cheers,
   Peter.
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