[fitsbits] start of Public Comment Period on the INHERIT convention

[Steve Allen]

On Wed 2015-07-01T14:07:37 -0400, Arnold Rots hath writ:
> As an aside, I wonder how many of the multi-image FITS files could be
> combined into an image cube.

Some could be combined, others could not.

The optical CCD instruments at Keck are not constrained to have the
same readout geometry for every IMAGE extension in their
multi-extension FITS files.

See the tartan/patchwork image example here.

http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/fits/mosaic/panes/phduNoted.html

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