[Aavso-photometry] FITS Keyword standard

[Brian D. Warner]

>>>>>>>>>>
The conventional keywords are those which are not forced to have specific names but 
which
have names that are more or less universally adopted within the professional
community of observatories and institutions, such as RDNOISE, GAIN, and
IMAGETYP.
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Therein lies the rub. There _isn't_ a universally adopted set of conventional 
keywords.
Looking around the Net one time, I found about 7 different "standards" of 
conventional
keywords.

To say there is a more or less universal standard is really not accurate since it
depends on who you ask.

Personally, I adopted the NOFS standard and check my files for standardization using

  http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_verify.html


If that reports everything is OK, then I consider my files to "meet the standard."
Last time I checked, that was the case.


Clear Skies,
Brian D. Warner
Palmer Divide Observatory/Space Science Institute
http://www.MinorPlanetObserver.com

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