different computers since 1979. The difficulty most likely to be
encountered by a FITS application is inability to acquire the
computational resources required by a very large FITS file.
Published specification:
The specification for this content type is published as a series of
papers in refereed astronomical journals:
Hanisch, R., et al., "Definition of the Flexible Image Transport
System (FITS)", Astronomy & Astrophysics, 376, p. 359, 2001.
Greisen, E. and M. Calabretta, "Representations of world
coordinates in FITS", Astronomy & Astrophysics, 395, p. 1061, 2002.
Calabretta, M. and E. Greisen, "Representations of celestial
coordinates in FITS", Astronomy & Astrophysics, 395, p. 1077, 2002.
Copies of these specifications can also be found via:
http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/
http://archive.stsci.edu/fits/
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/fits.html
Applications that use this media type:
There are many astronomical image viewing and data reduction
applications including, but not limited to, the following list:
IRAF http://iraf.noao.edu/
AIPS http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/aips/
AIPS++ http://aips2.nrao.edu/
MIDAS http://www.eso.org/projects/esomidas/
ds9 http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/ds9/
fv http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftools/fv/
Aladin http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/
Starlink http://star-www.rl.ac.uk/
Miriad http://bima.astro.umd.edu/miriad/
STSDAS http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/stsdas
PROS http://hea-www.harvard.edu/PROS/pros.html
CIAO http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/
XANADU http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xanadu/xanadu.html
HESSI http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssw/hessi/doc/
FITSview http://www.nrao.edu/software/fitsview/
XMM-SAS http://xmm.vilspa.esa.es/external/xmm_sw_cal/sas_frame.shtml
Non-astronomical FITS image display applications include:
netpbm http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/
gimp http://www.gimp.org/
IDL http://www.rsinc.com/
ImageMagick http://www.imagemagick.com/
Mathematica http://www.wolfram.com/
MatLab http://www.mathworks.com/
xv http://www.trilon.com/xv/xv.html
There are also two FITS plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop
(http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/), available at
http://astroshed.com/fitsplug/fitsplug.htm and
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