FITS Time WCS Draft

Arnold Rots, SAO/CXC, 2009-09-30

This draft is being developed by Arnold H. Rots (SAO), Peter S. Bunclark (deceased, IoA), Mark R. Calabretta (ATNF), Steven L. Allen (UCO), Richard N. Manchester (ATNF).

The current version is 0.73.
The draft is available as Postscript or PDF.
Although more complete than Versioin 0.71, this version still needs a little more polishing and there are still some remaining issues that are yet to be resolved.
Editorial comments are printed in red.

The previous public version was 0.71.
That draft is still available as Postscript or PDF.

Additional resources:

• The current FITS Standard
• The FITS WCS documentation page
• The FITS Y2k agreement
• The USNO Timescales page
• The Chandra time tutorial
• The IVOA STC standard

Last modified: 2009-09-30