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29 July 2021 at 12:27 pm
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Nick James
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Sort of. They still allow DATE-OBS to be anything the developer likes as long as it is indicated in a comment. That means that you have to parse comments to find out what the keyword means. That is a pretty rubbish “standard” in my view. As an engineer the FITS standard is pretty much the kind of thing that I would expect a scientist to write…