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- FITS abstract "Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) is an open standard defining a digital file format useful for storage, transmission and processing of scientific and other images. FITS is the most commonly used digital file format in astronomy. Unlike many image formats, FITS is designed specifically for scientific data and hence includes many provisions for describing photometric and spatial calibration information, together with image origin metadata.The FITS format was first standardized in 1981; it has evolved gradually since then, and the most recent version (3.0) was standardized in 2008. FITS was designed with an eye towards long-term archival storage, and the maxim once FITS, always FITS represents the requirement that developments to the format must be backwards compatible.A major feature of the FITS format is that image metadata is stored in a human-readable ASCII header, so that an interested user can examine the headers to investigate a file of unknown provenance.The information in the header is designed to calculate the byte offset of some informationin the subsequent data unit to support direct access to the data cells.Each FITS file consists of one or more headers containing ASCII card images (80 character fixed-length strings) that carry keyword/value pairs, interleaved between data blocks. The keyword/value pairs provide information such as size, origin, coordinates, binary data format, free-form comments, history of the data, and anything else the creator desires: while many keywords are reserved for FITS use, the standard allows arbitrary use of the rest of the name-space.FITS is also often used to store non-image data, such as spectra, photon lists, data cubes, or even structured data such as multi-table databases. A FITS file may contain several extensions, and each of these may contain a data object. For example, it is possible to store x-ray and infrared exposures in the same file.".
- FITS wikiPageExternalLink fits.gsfc.nasa.gov.
- FITS wikiPageExternalLink birthday.news.
- FITS wikiPageExternalLink fits_libraries.html.
- FITS wikiPageID "208816".
- FITS wikiPageLength "10884".
- FITS wikiPageOutDegree "64".
- FITS wikiPageRevisionID "681091965".
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink ASCII.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Adobe_Photoshop.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Astronomy.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Astropy.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Backward_compatibility.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Backwards_compatible.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink C++.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink C_(programming_language).
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink C_Sharp_(programming_language).
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Card_image.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Cartesian_coordinate_system.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Category:Astronomical_imaging.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Category:Graphics_file_formats.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Category:High_dynamic_range_file_formats.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Celestial_coordinate_system.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Common_Data_Format.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Coordinate_system.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Cosmic_microwave_background.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Cosmic_microwave_background_radiation.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Data_cube.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Data_model.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Database.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Electromagnetic_spectrum.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink European_Southern_Observatory.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink European_Space_Agency.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink FITS_Liberator.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink File_format.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Fortran.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink GIMP.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Goddard_Space_Flight_Center.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink HEALPix.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Hierarchical_Data_Format.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink IAU.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink IDL_(programming_language).
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink IGOR_Pro.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink ImageJ.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Image_file_formats.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Image_metadata.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Infrared.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Interactive_data_language.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink International_Astronomical_Union.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink IrfanView.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Java_(programming_language).
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Julia_(programming_language).
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink LabVIEW.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink MATLAB.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Map_projection.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Mathematica.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Metadata.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink NASA.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink NetCDF.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Open_standard.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Perl.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Perl_Data_Language.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Photometry_(optics).
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Photon.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Photoshop.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Python_(programming_language).
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink R_(programming_language).
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Relational_database.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Solarsoft.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Spherical_projection.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Starlink_Project.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Structured_data.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink Tcl.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink X-ray.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink XnView.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLink File:SAOImage-DS9.png.
- FITS wikiPageWikiLinkText "FITS".
- FITS wikiPageWikiLinkText "Flexible Image Transport System (FITS)".
- FITS wikiPageWikiLinkText "Flexible Image Transport System".
- FITS extension ".fits, .fit, .fts".
- FITS genre Data_model.
- FITS genre Image_file_formats.
- FITS genre Structured_data.
- FITS hasPhotoCollection FITS.
- FITS latestReleaseDate "July 2008".
- FITS latestReleaseVersion "3".
- FITS mime "application/fits".
- FITS mime "image/fits".
- FITS name "FITS".
- FITS owner "IAU FITS Working Group".
- FITS released "1981".
- FITS url fits.gsfc.nasa.gov.
- FITS wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Graphics_file_formats.
- FITS wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Infobox_file_format.
- FITS wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Official_website.
- FITS wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- FITS subject Category:Astronomical_imaging.
- FITS subject Category:Graphics_file_formats.
- FITS subject Category:High_dynamic_range_file_formats.
- FITS comment "Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) is an open standard defining a digital file format useful for storage, transmission and processing of scientific and other images. FITS is the most commonly used digital file format in astronomy.".