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Re: new software

At 13:45 24/10/00 , Chris Albertson wrote:
>

>The interesting thing is in William Pence's "chances.txt" that goes
>with his new version 2.1 of cfitsio.  He says
>
>  "...FITS files up to 6 terabytes in size may now be read and
>   written  ...  were added to enable reading and writing of Large
>   images, with more than 2.1e9 pixels..."
>
>image > 2.1E9 pixels = one _big_ CCD.
thats about  37.8cm square detector with adjacent 9 micron pixels
Chris. Just about equal to a Schimdt photographic plate 
in detector size anyway.
Tony Beresford