FITS Tags

This table lists some standard Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) tags, but ExifTool will extract any other tags found. See https://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_standard.html for the specification.

Tag ID Tag Name Writable Values / Notes
'AUTHOR' Author no
'BACKGRND' Background no
'COMMENT' Comment no (leading spaces are removed if PrintConv is enabled)
'DATE' CreateDate no
'DATE-END' ObservationDateEnd no
'DATE-OBS' ObservationDate no
'HISTORY' History no (leading spaces are removed if PrintConv is enabled)
'INSTRUME' Instrument no
'OBJECT' Object no
'OBSERVER' Observer no
'REFERENC' Reference no
'TELESCOP' Telescope no
'TIME-END' ObservationTimeEnd no
'TIME-OBS' ObservationTime no

(This document generated automatically by Image::ExifTool::BuildTagLookup)
Last revised Feb 23, 2021

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