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The 53 defined standard FITS keywords

The 53 keywords currently defined in the FITS standard are as follows:
(blank)  CROTAn   EQUINOX  NAXISn   TBCOLn   TUNITn
AUTHOR   CRPIXn   EXTEND   OBJECT   TDIMn    TZEROn
BITPIX   CRVALn   EXTLEVEL OBSERVER TDISPn   XTENSION
BLANK    CTYPEn   EXTNAME  ORIGIN   TELESCOP
BLOCKED  DATAMAX  EXTVER   PCOUNT   TFIELDS
BSCALE   DATAMIN  GCOUNT   PSCALn   TFORMn
BUNIT    DATE     GROUPS   PTYPEn   THEAP
BZERO    DATE-OBS HISTORY  PZEROn   TNULLn
CDELTn   END      INSTRUME REFERENC TSCALn
COMMENT  EPOCH    NAXIS    SIMPLE   TTYPEn

A concise definition of each of these is available from the FWG html page:
http://legacy.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/fcg/standard_dict.html



Bob Garwood
2011-07-23