The FITS standard supports 64 bit signed integers (BITPIX value of 64) but MaRC does not yet support that data type. It should be straightforward to implement support for 64 bit signed integers. CFITSIO, the underlying FITS library MaRC currently uses, already supports 64 bit signed integers.
The FITS standard supports 64 bit signed integers (BITPIX value of 64) but MaRC does not yet support that data type. It should be straightforward to implement support for 64 bit signed integers. CFITSIO, the underlying FITS library MaRC currently uses, already supports 64 bit signed integers.