These FITS files were collected by Don Wells and were originally available on the NRAO web site. These are relatively early examples of FITS usage, so they do not necessarily conform to the latest FITS format recommendations.
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Sample FITS Files from NRAO
Sample files from various facilities
- Astrophysical Data Facility (ADC/NASA/GSFC) sample tables
- Binary table examples
- 3D data cube
- Hierarchical Grouping
- Hubble Space Telescope
- IMAGE extensions
- Single disk radio data
- VLBA radio data
- World Coordinate System (WCS) examples
- XTE X-ray satellite data
- Year-2000 DATE keyword examples
Test data sets
- ftt4b - FITS Test Tape 4b, a collection of FITS files produced in the early 80s in order to test FITS readers and demonstrate the versatility of FITS as a format.
- headers - A collection of 'FITS' files produced by Barry Schlesinger which test various syntactic errors of headers.
- incunabula - A collection of the oldest FITS files known, including a copy of the first FITS file which passed in interchange between two observatories.
- pg93 - A collection of test files produced by Preben Grosbol in order to test FITS readers for implementation of support for the full set of IEEE cases (infinities, NaNs, etc) and to test support for the proposed BINTABLE and IMAGE extensions.
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