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3.6.3 Column-oriented FITS

As described in Section 3.5.2, STIL supports FITS files in which each column is stored as a single cell of a one-row BINTABLE extension. Two writers are provided, ColFitsPlusTableWriter which writes VOTable-format metadata as a byte array in the primary HDU as for FITS-plus, and ColFitsTableWriter which writes a blank primary HDU.


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STIL - Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library
Starlink User Note252
STIL web page: http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stil/
Author email: m.b.taylor@bristol.ac.uk
Starlink: http://www.starlink.ac.uk/