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Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIII ASP Conference Series, Vol. 314, 2004 F. Ochsenbein, M. Allen, and D. Egret, eds. Making FITS available on Dot Net and its applicatio
Vivek Haridas, Tamas Budavari, William O’Mullane, Alex Szalay and Ani Thakar Department of Physics and Astronomy, Joh
Hopki
Unive
ity, Email: haridas@pha.jhu.edu Alberto Conti and Antonio Volpicelli Space Telescope Science I
titute Bill Pence NASA/GSFC Abstract. The Flexible Image Tra
port System (FITS) is a powerful and widely adopted mea
of exchanging Astronomical Data. There are also a great number of tools and libraries available on many platforms to fa- cilitate working with FITS. We present the FitsLib 1 , A library written to facilitate development of astronomical data analysis tools on the Microsoft.Net Platform. This has been developed as a wrapper over one of the very popular and time tested FITS libraries, CFITSIO. Fits.Net library merges the advantages of speed and ruggedness of CFITSIO with the language independence of the Microsoft.Net technology and a simple Document Object Model (DOM). We believe this library will be intuitive for .NET

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