What is the difference between .ras and .fits?
- Extension
- .ras
- .fits
- 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.
- The Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) file format is a digital file format used primarily in astronomy for storing, transmitting, and analyzing scientific images and data. Developed in the late 1970s, FITS was designed to provide a standard for the interchange of astronomical data, facilitating the sharing and analysis of data among astronomers and researchers worldwide.
- MIME Type
- image/x-cmu-raster
- image/fits
- Sample
- sample.fits
- Wikipedia
- .ras on Wikipedia
- .fits on Wikipedia