Sample FITS Files from NRAO
These FITS files were collected by Don Wells and were originally available
on the NRAO web site. These are relatively early examples of FITS usage,
so they do not necessarily conform to the latest FITS format recommendations.
Sample files from various facilities
Test data sets
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ftt4b - FITS Test Tape 4b, a collection of
FITS files produced in the early 80s
in order to test FITS readers and demonstrate the versatility of FITS as a format.
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headers - A collection of 'FITS'
files produced by Barry Schlesinger which test various syntactic
errors of headers.
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incunabula
- A collection of the oldest FITS files known, including a
copy of the first FITS file which passed in interchange between two observatories.
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pg93 - A collection of test files produced
by Preben Grosbol in order to test FITS readers for implementation of
support for the full set of IEEE cases (infinities, NaNs, etc) and to
test support for the proposed BINTABLE and IMAGE extensions.
Last revised: Tuesday, 28-Oct-2014 11:51:32 EDT
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