FITS (Flexible Image Transport System)
FITS is an image data file format for encoding astronomical data. The WCS (World Coordinate System) conventions map elements in data arrays to standard physical coordinates in the sky. FITS has provisions for image metadata encoded in an ASCII header at the beginning of files.
Used in
Documentation
Identifiers
- Internal MSC ID
- msc:m18
Tools
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Known users
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BAV (Biblioteca Apoltolica Vaticana)
The Vatican Library uses FITS as the digital image format for the digitization of its manuscript collection.
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ESA is an international organisation with 20 Member States that coordinates the financial and intellectual resources of it's members to facilitate space related programmes and activities. Image data is released using FITS for many missions.
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The High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) is the primary archive for NASA's (and other space agencies') missions dealing with electromagnetic radiation from extremely energetic phenomena ranging from black holes to the Big Bang.
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IVOA (International Virtual Observatory Alliance)
The International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) is an organisation that debates and agrees to technical standards that are needed to make the Virtual Observatory possible. FITS is one of those standards.
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JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)
Japan's independent administrative institution that handles research and development in space and aviation areas.
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Archive for STEREO telemetry, mission support data, and higher level instrument data and analysis software.