[fitsbits] BINTABLE convention for >999 columns

[Peter Weilbacher]

Hi Mark,

On Fri, 28 Jul 2017, Mark Taylor wrote:

> and the example header looks identical to my original example up
> to TFORM999, but the remaining entries differ:
>
>    TTYPE998= 'var_min_s_2'        /  label for column 998
>    TFORM998= 'D       '           /  format for column 998
>    TUNIT998= 'counts/s'           /  units for column 998
>    TTYPE999= 'XT_MORECOLS'        /  label for column 999
>    TFORM999= '813I    '           /  format for column 999
>    HIERARCH XT TTYPE999         = 'var_min_u_2' / label for column 999
>    HIERARCH XT TFORM999         = 'D' / format for column 999
>    HIERARCH XT TUNIT999         = 'counts/s' / units for column 999
>    HIERARCH XT TTYPE1000        = 'var_prob_h_2' / label for column 1000
>    HIERARCH XT TFORM1000        = 'D' / format for column 1000
>     ...
>    HIERARCH XT TTYPE1203        = 'var_prob_w_2' / label for column 1203
>    HIERARCH XT TFORM1203        = 'D' / format for column 1203
>    HIERARCH XT TTYPE1204        = 'var_sigma_w_2' / label for column 1204
>    HIERARCH XT TFORM1204        = 'D' / format for column 1204
>    HIERARCH XT TUNIT1204        = 'counts/s' / units for column 1204
>    END

Just curious: why are there extra spaces between the hierarch keyword
name and the equal sign? In the FITS files that I'm dealing with on a
daily basis (coming from ESO), " = " is directly following the keyword.

Cheers,
   Peter.
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