.FITS File

File extension: FITS

File type: File

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Notes about the FITS file extension:

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The FITS file type is primarily associated with 'FITS'. FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) is the data format most widely used within astronomy for transporting, analyzing, and archiving scientific data files. FITS is much more than just another image format (such as JPG or GIF) and is primarily designed to store scientific data sets consisting of multidimensional arrays (images) and 2-dimensional tables organized into rows and columns of information. Often this file will have the extension .FIZ.

Detailed information for file extension FITS:

Primary association: FITS

File classification: Graphic

Other applications associated with file type FITS:

FITS GraphicFlexible Image Transport System - Camera CCD Image Related links: XnView

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System Info for File Extension .FITS

The following listing is compiled from the database produced by the 'Associate This!' program, selected data from the main FILExt database and information FILExt collected directly from user systems.

ProgramID: GraphicsConverterPro.fits, FileType: Flexible Image Transport Systeme, AppName: GraphicsConverter-reg
EXEFile: GraphicsConverter.exe

ProgramID: XnView.Image
EXEFile: %ProgramFiles%\XnView\xnview.exe %1

ProgramID: TheGIMP13
EXEFile: C:\GIMP-1.3\bin\gimp-1.3.exe %1

ProgramID: FitsImage
EXEFile: %ProgramFiles%\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS\Photoshop.exe %1

ProgramID: CCDSoft_File
EXEFile: %ProgramFiles%\SOFTWARE BISQUE\CCDSOFT VERSION 5\CCDSOFT.EXE

ProgramID: CCD_Image
EXEFile: %ProgramFiles%\Diffraction Limited\MaxIm DL 3\MaxIm_DL.exe

ProgramID: GIMP-2.0-fit
EXEFile: %ProgramFiles%\Gimp-2.0\bin\gimp-2.6.exe

Program Name and MIME Type Info for File Extension .FITS

FILExt has been given permission to display a Program Name/MIME type database collected by Anthony R. Nemmer. Some of this data has already been included into the main FILExt database. Those entries which have not yet been incorporated are displayed below.

Program Name Mime Type image/x-fits

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