Re: FITS table

From: kanoa <kanoa_at_cfht.hawaii.edu>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:49:33 -1000

Hi Fred, responses are inline:


>> Oh, great news! Yes, we keep copies of these tables for every distribution. I
>> copied everything we have into that same directory and you can pull whatever
>> looks interesting.
>
> Great, thanks ! I am downloading them. Got any md5 checksum for them ? ;)
>

Yes, metadata FITS tables have internal checksum headers. You need to
use some kind of tool (like cfitsio) that knows how to check them. I can
provide something to check them if you run into any difficulty.

>> We generate a similar table for WIRCam though some columns are different from
>> a Megacam table to reflect the differences in infrared and visible observing.
>
> That's ok, are those tables among the one you just made available ?

Yes, these are for both WIRCam and Megacam.


Aloha,

-Kanoa
Received on Thu Jan 10 2008 - 15:49:34 HST