What is the difference between .png and .fit?
- Extension
- .png
- .fit
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- PNG Development Group
- IAU FITS Working Group
- Description
- A PNG file is an image file stored in the Portable Network Graphic (PNG) format. It contains a bitmap of indexed colors and uses lossless compression, similar to a .GIF file but without copyright limitations. PNG files are commonly used to store graphics for web images.
- FTS file format is used to edit, store and transmit images with metadata (data with spatial and photometric calibrations) for scientific purposes. Most times it stores the data without the actual associated images.
- MIME Type
- image/png
- image/fits
- Sample
- sample.png
- Wikipedia
- .png on Wikipedia
- .fit on Wikipedia