Caption or FITS Header

(Latest Revision: 8 May 2009)

This page displays the caption for a map or figure taken from a published article, or the header for the FITS version of an image of your object. These captions and headers contain identifying and descriptive information about the map or image.

Click here for information about the Flexible Image Transport System (FITS). This WWW site maintains links to other sites with FITS images, software (both precompiled and source code) for FITS format readers and writers for various computer systems, and much other useful information about astronomical imaging.

Click here for information about downloading free software for viewing FITS images on PCs running MS Windows, Macintosh PCs, and various UNIX systems.


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