[Aavso-photometry] FITS Keyword List

Michael Newberry mnewberry at mirametrics.com
Fri Jan 4 13:50:49 EST 2008


After yesterday's discussion about FITS keywords, I thought maybe it would 
be useful to pull a page out of the Mira documentation and post it on the 
web. This is a detailed list of keywords that Mira recognizes or has 
recognized in previous versions. The table describes what the keyword means 
and how it is used. Non Mira users can at least look at this and see what 
keywords are out there in professional circles. Some of the entries in this 
table are antiquated but they are included because people using old FITS 
images may see them and want to know what happened to them.

To see the list, go to http://www.mirametrics.com and select "Tech Notes" 
from the left menu and select tech note 12. There is also a tech note 13 
that is a simple list of keywords used to represent the world coordinate 
calibration in FITS images.

Michael Newberry




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