From server@athena.gsfc.nasa.gov Wed Jul 13 10:55:06 1994 Status: RO X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1771" "Wed" "13" "July" "1994" "10:54" "EDT" "Ian M George, Code 668, NASA/GSFC, USA (Usque ad mortem bibendum)" "GEORGE@lheavx.gsfc.nasa.gov" nil "37" "OFWG Recommendation R12 - Standard strings for Missions, Instruments etc" "^From:" nil nil "7" nil nil nil nil] nil) Return-Path: Received: from athena.gsfc.nasa.gov by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA18481; Wed, 13 Jul 94 10:55:04 EDT Received: by athena.gsfc.nasa.gov (Smail3.1.28.1 #4) id m0qO5hq-0001CWa; Wed, 13 Jul 94 10:54 EDT Message-Id: <940713105426.2020695d@lheavx.gsfc.nasa.gov> Errors-To: oneel@arupa.gsfc.nasa.gov Reply-To: heafits@athena.gsfc.nasa.gov Originator: heafits@athena.gsfc.nasa.gov Precedence: bulk X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0 -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas From: "Ian M George, Code 668, NASA/GSFC, USA (Usque ad mortem bibendum)" Sender: server@athena.gsfc.nasa.gov (Listserv/Listproc manager) Sender: heafits@athena.gsfc.nasa.gov To: dwells@fits.CV.NRAO.EDU Subject: OFWG Recommendation R12 - Standard strings for Missions, Instruments etc Date: Wed, 13 Jul 94 10:54 EDT At a meeting on 1994 Jul 06, the OGIP FITS Working Group (OFWG) discussed the "Great TELESCOP" debate recently carried out on HEAFITS. It was the consensus of the panel that whilst the introduction of a new (more 'rational' ?!) FITS keyword convention for specifying the mission/observatory, telescope, detector etc to which a dataset refered had many merits, too many FITS datasets have already been written to write-once media for the current TELESCOP = 'mission' to be changed, and that a mixture of conventions would lead to confusion. Therefore (with some regrets), the OFWG voted that the document listing all OFWG-recommended keywords & values (memo OGIP/93-013) should NOT be changed at this (late) stage. The OFWG then raised its earlier preliminary recommendation, p15.1, that the OGIP/93-013 memo ought to be strictly adhered to within OGIP FITS files, to a full recommendation. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- OFSP Recommendation R12 --------------------------------------------------------- | On the adoption of standard strings to specify mission,| | instruments and filters | --------------------------------------------------------- (OFSP Vote: 1994 Jul 06) The OFSP recommends that the strings listed in OGIP Memo OGIP/93-013 be adopted to by the High Energy community to describe the mission, instrument & filters in use for a given dataset. This memo can be obtained via the Legacy anonymous ftp account as /FTP/fits_info/fits_formats/docs/general/ogip_93_013.tex (LaTeX source) /FTP/fits_info/fits_formats/docs/general/ogip_93_013.ps (PS) ----------------------------------- END ---------------------------------- Ian M George NASA/GSFC OFWG 1994 Jul 11