[fitsbits] SDFITS file header vs extension header

Bob Garwood bgarwood at nrao.edu
Wed May 14 16:15:09 EDT 2014


Because you might want to combine calibrated data from different 
telescopes, projects, etc and so they would then need to be columns and 
would need to be in the table.

Not that I've ever seen anyone do that, but that's the idea.

Bob

On 5/14/2014 4:06 PM, Tom Kuiper wrote:
> What's the logic behind where to put metadata?  For example, why would
> these not go into the primary header:
> TELESCOP, site data, PROJID.  In fact, anything common to all extension
> in the file.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tom
>




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