Fits Files

[Tom Droege <tdroege@veriomail.com>]

I am attaching a small file from last nights running.  This is to show that 
we are now getting pretty round stars.  The image is from the V camera.

This is the result of bringing the image into Image Scientist and writing 
out a small section of it.  Unfortunately IS does not transfer all the 
things that were in the image header.  So I cannot proudly display the 
result of my work.  Or give you all a chance to criticize it.

I would like to do this, so if anyone has a good idea about how I can strip 
off the fits header and put it in a mail message let me know.  Ha!  I just 
read it into Word Pad, and it did not barf.  So I stripped off the 
header.  Nice to know that Word Pad will read in an 8 MB file.  Sorry about 
the font, and who knows how it will arrive at your end, but it looks OK here.

Tom Droege

SIMPLE  =                    T / file does conform to FITS 
standard
BITPIX  =                   16 / number of bits per data 
pixel
NAXIS   =                    2 / number of data 
axes
NAXIS1  =                 2043 / length of data axis 
1
NAXIS2  =                 2037 / length of data axis 
2
EXTEND  =                    T / FITS dataset may contain 
extensions
COMMENT   FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) format defined in Astronomy nd
COMMENT   Astrophysics Supplement Series v44/p363, v44/p371, v73/p359, 73/p365.
COMMENT   Contact the NASA Science Office of Standards and Technology for 
the
COMMENT   FITS Definition document #100 and other FITS 
information.
DATE    = '2001-03-23T07:26:11' / file creation date (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss 
UTC)
FILTER  = 
'I       '
LATITUDE=              41.8271 / Site H latitude, degrees 
north
LONGITUD=             -88.3125 / Site H longitude, degrees 
east
RALIM   =                 -9.5 / RA Limit Switch Position Degrees 
East
DECLIM  =                   0. / Declination limit switch Degrees 
North
DATASEC = '[ 17:2064, 1:2048]' / Place keeper for Active area of the 
detector
BIASSEC = '[ 10: 15, 1:2048]'  / Place keeper for Under-Over scan 
region
TIMESYS = 'UT      '           / time system for exposure 
start
EPOCH   =                2001. / Place keeper for Epoch of 
coordinates
EQUINOX =                2000. / Place keeper for Equinox of 
coordinates
SCALE   =                  7.4 / Arc seconds per 
pixel
TIMEBASE= 'Manual GPS'         / By hand transfer to PC 
clock
COMMENT   Additions to Constant 
File
RA      = '12:28: 19'          / RA of Field 
Center
RATIME  = '390.25  '           / Seconds since turning on RA 
drive
MAGETYP= 'dark    '           / dark frame
WATERTMP= '10.02001'           / Cooling water 
temperature
VCOTEMP = '11.42382'           / VCO 
Temperature
DEC     = '1       '           / Place Keeper for DEC of field 
center
COMMENT   This is the #1 Camera 
File
DATE-OBS= '2001-03-23T07:26:10' / UT date-time of exposure 
start
UTSTART = '07:26:10'           / Universal time of #1 exposure (I) 
start
EXPTIME =             63.60938 / Open Time for Camera 1 usually 
I
GAIN    =                  2.5 / Place Keeper for Gain in electrons per 
adu
RDNOISE =                  25. / Place Keeper for Read Noise in 
electrons
CCDTEMP = '-24.00709'          / CCD Temperature Camera 
1
END

Mar22.fts