What is the difference between .ras and .fit?
- Extension
- .ras
- .fit
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Sun
- IAU FITS Working Group
- Description
- Originally used on the Sun Microsystems computers, RAS is a raster image format that displays bitmap images. It is popularly used for specific types of research projects and it can be developed in Unix OS as well. It supports 1 and 32-bits per pixel and used RLE compression codec.
- 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/x-cmu-raster
- image/fits
- Wikipedia
- .ras on Wikipedia
- .fit on Wikipedia