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FITS Format
The FITS format provides a general way to encode both a definition of
data and the data themselves in a machine independent form. The
original definition is published in a number of articles, see Wells et
al. [1], Greisen et al. [2], Grosbøl et
al. [3] and Harten et al. [4]. A good
general introduction to FITS can be found in [5] while
a concise description is given in [6] both available
through the NASA FITS Support Office and its anonymous ftp archive
at Internet node nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov.
Petra Nass
1999-06-09