[Issues] LBCBLUE data

Erik Deul deul at strw.LeidenUniv.nl
Mon Jul 16 09:51:38 CEST 2007


 From the official FITS standard description for floating point numbers:

A floating point number is represented by a decimal number followed by 
an optional exponent, with no embedded spaces. A decimal number consists 
of a `+' (hexadecimal 2B) or `-' (hexadecimal 2D) sign, followed by a 
sequence of ASCII digits containing a single decimal point (`.'), 
representing an integer part and a fractional part of the
floating point number.

So the decimal point is obligatory, even at this low precision.

The LBCBLUE data is not conforming to the FITS standard. I won't change 
the fitsconv code.

Erik
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