[Aavso-photometry] FITS Keyword List

[Dave Lane]

Michael Newberry wrote:
> Certainly the image could meet the FITS standard, but that does not 
> necessarily mean that some important keywords it might contain can be 
> understood by any other software. For example, it might use NOISE123  for 
> the readout noise, or EXPOSE66 for the exposure time, and the image still 
> would pass the test since the verifier would just assume those 2 keywords 
> are private. But you would run into trouble trying to do photometry on the 
> image because the readout noise and exposure time are not in a readily 
> accessible form.
>   
One thing that developers of image processing software could do is to is 
to make their software configurable. All that would be needed is 
settings in the software that translates the header key names (and 
formats if appropriate) from the to-be-processed files to the software's 
expected key names. This is not rocket science.

--- Dave