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Example 3:  ASCII Table

(Note: The first two lines following are provided to help the reader determine column numbers. They are not part of FITS headers.)

00000000011111111112222222222333333333344444444445555555555666666666
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678
SIMPLE  =                    T / STANDARD FITS FORMAT (REV OCT 1981)
BITPIX  =                    8 / CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAXIS   =                    0 / NO IMAGE DATA ARRAY PRESENT  
EXTEND  =                    T / THERE IS AN EXTENSION
ORIGIN  = 'ESO     '           / EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY
OBJECT  = 'SNG - CAT.     '    / THE IDENTIFIER
DATE    = '27/ 5/84'           / DATE THIS TAPE WRITTEN DD/MM/YY  
END

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XTENSION= 'TABLE   '           / TABLE EXTENSION
BITPIX  =                    8 / CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAXIS   =                    2 / SIMPLE 2-D MATRIX 
NAXIS1  =                   98 / NO. OF CHARACTERS PER ROW
NAXIS2  =                   10 / NO. OF ROWS
PCOUNT  =                    0 / RANDOM PARAMETER COUNT
GCOUNT  =                    1 / GROUP COUNT
TFIELDS =                    7 / NO. OF FIELDS PER ROW
TTYPE1  = 'IDEN.   '           / NAME OF ROW
TBCOL1  =                    1 / BEGINNING COLUMN OF THE FIELD
TFORM1  = 'E14.7   '           / FORMAT
TNULL1  = '        '           / NULL VALUE
TTYPE2  = 'RA      '           / NAME OF ROW
TBCOL2  =                   15 / BEGINNING COLUMN OF THE FIELD
TFORM2  = 'E14.7   '           / FORMAT
TNULL2  = '        '           / NULL VALUE  
TTYPE3  = 'DEC     '           / NAME OF ROW
TBCOL3  =                   29 / BEGINNING COLUMN OF THE FIELD
TFORM3  = 'E14.7   '           / FORMAT 
TNULL3  = '        '           / NULL NAME
TTYPE4  = 'TYPE    '           / NAME OF ROW
TBCOL4  =                   43 / BEGINNING COLUMN OF THE FIELD
TFORM4  = 'E14.7   '           / FORMAT
TNULL4  = '        '           / NULL VALUE
TTYPE5  = 'D25     '           / NAME OF ROW
TBCOL5  =                   57 / BEGINNING OF COLUMN OF THE FIELD
TFORM5  = 'E14.7   '           / FORMAT
TNULL5  = '        '           / NULL VALUE
TTYPE6  = 'INCL.   '           / NAME OF ROW
TBCOL6  =                   71 / BEGINNING COLUMN OF THE FIELD
TFORM6  = 'E14.7   '           / FORMAT
TNULL6  = '        '           / NULL VALUE
TTYPE7  = 'RV      '           / NAME OF ROW
TBCOL7  =                   85 / BEGINNING COLUMN OF THE FIELD
TFORM7  = 'E14.7   '           / FORMAT
TNULL7  = '        '           / NULL VALUE
END

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