FITS sample: WFPC2ASSNu5780205bx.fits (HST WFPC II)

DigitalObject · http://example.org/archive/digital-object-c35d9572

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Download the data description → Its Representation Information, with all it needs, as a zip: description.ttl and each structure description and view specification (DFDL, Kaitai Struct, DRB, ...) as a file.

Open the data

This Data Object's bits have a storage location, and its Representation Information says how to read them. Its Representation Information manifest (Turtle) names the data and each description explicitly; TOPCAT (with the oais-structure-topcat reader, format OAIS-RepInfo) and SPLAT open it by that address.

FITS → FITS file →

Its Representation Information says it's a FITS file (PRONOM x-fmt/383), and its headers say what it holds: TOPCAT is offered for its tables, DS9 and Aladin for its images. They read the FITS file itself, as it is, sent to them running on your computer (over SAMP) — unless its Representation Information describes this file in particular, with a table or image view: then they're sent it decoded on the server, its columns named and with their units. The "FITS file" link works in any FITS reader.

in RepInfo Tools: its columns and pixels typed, named and given their units and meanings, and its keywords' meanings from the FITS keyword dictionary — to save as Representation Information of this Data Object, for the archive to decode it, view its table and image and print its values.

Its Representation Information also says how to see it as an image. "View with DS9" or "Aladin" sends the image, decoded on the server as FITS, to that application running on your computer (over SAMP). Fiji/ImageJ doesn't use SAMP: open the FITS link's file in it, or give it the link's address with File › Import › URL. The FITS header carries the pixels' units and meaning.

See the values here

Decodes the data on the server through its Representation Information and prints each value, with where it is in the bits and what it means (its meaning, a code's meaning, a scaled value with its units), as RepInfo Tools does for a sample file — a page at a time, so a large file doesn't swamp the browser. The first page of a large file takes a while to decode; the pages after it don't.

See the image here

decoded on the server through its Representation Information; large images take a while

Drag to pan, or use the mouse wheel to zoom. "First row at the bottom" follows the astronomical convention, as DS9 and Aladin show FITS images.

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Rewrite it in another format described in the archive, check its Transformational Information Properties, and record the result as a new Data Object in an AIP Version.

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Its Archival Information Package

Its identifier, which other AIPs can refer to: http://example.org/archive/digital-object-c35d9572

Properties

comment WFPC II 1600 x 1600 primary array mosaic constructed from the 4 individual CCD chips (trimmed to 100 x 100 pixels). From the FITS Support Office's sample files (https://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_samples.html).
label FITS sample: WFPC2ASSNu5780205bx.fits (HST WFPC II)

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