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SIMPLE  =                    T / Written by IDL:  Sat Jan 25 22:42:30 2003      
BITPIX  =                  -32 / Number of bits per data pixel                  
NAXIS   =                    2 / Number of data axes                            
NAXIS1  =                 8640 /                                                
NAXIS2  =                 4320 /                                                
DATE    = '2003-01-26'         / Creation UTC (CCCC-MM-DD) date of FITS header  
COMMENT FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) format is defined in 'Astronomy  
COMMENT and Astrophysics', volume 376, page 359; bibcode 2001A&A...376..359H    
CTYPE1  = 'GLON-CAR'           /                                                
CRPIX1  =              4320.50 /                                                
CRVAL1  =              0.00000 /                                                
CTYPE2  = 'GLAT-CAR'           /                                                
CRPIX2  =              2160.50 /                                                
CRVAL2  =              0.00000 /                                                
CD1_1   =     -0.0416666666667 /                                                
CD1_2   =        0.00000000000 /                                                
CD2_1   =        0.00000000000 /                                                
CD2_2   =      0.0416666666667 /                                                
LONPOLE =                  180 /                                                
PROJP1  =                    0 /                                                
PROJP2  =                    0 /                                                
EQUINOX =              2000.00 /                                                
BUNIT   = 'R       '           /                                                
VERSION = '1.1     '           /                                                
COMMENT --------------------------------------------------------                
COMMENT WHAM: The Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper                                      
COMMENT   funded by the National Science Foundation.                            
COMMENT   - Reynolds, Tufte, Haffner, Jaehnig, & Percival. 1998,                
COMMENT      Publ. Astron. Soc. Aust., 15, 14                                   
COMMENT   - Tufte, 1998. PhD Thesis, University of Wisconsin                    
COMMENT   - Haffner, 1999. PhD Thesis, University of Wisconsin                  
COMMENT                                                                         
COMMENT  http://www.astro.wisc.edu/wham/                                        
COMMENT --------------------------------------------------------                
COMMENT VTSS: The Virginia Tech Spectral-Line Survey,                           
COMMENT   supported by the National Science Foundation                          
COMMENT   and the Horton Foundation.                                            
COMMENT   - Brian Dennison, John Simonetti, Gregory Topasna.                    
COMMENT                                                                         
COMMENT  http://www.phys.vt.edu/~halpha/                                        
COMMENT --------------------------------------------------------                
COMMENT SHASSA: The Southern H-Alpha Sky Survey Atlas                           
COMMENT   - John Gaustad, Peter McCullough, Wayne Rosing,                       
COMMENT      & Dave Van Buren                                                   
COMMENT SHASSA is supported by National Science Foundation                      
COMMENT grants AST-9529057, AST-9900622, and AST-9874670,                       
COMMENT by NASA Contract NAS7-1260, and by Las Cumbres Obs.,                    
COMMENT Dudley Observatory, the Fund for Astrophysical Research,                
COMMENT Research Corporation, the University of Illinois,                       
COMMENT and Swarthmore College.                                                 
COMMENT                                                                         
COMMENT  http://amundsen.swarthmore.edu/SHASSA/                                 
COMMENT --------------------------------------------------------                
COMMENT                                                                         
COMMENT Bit  Name       Comments                                                
COMMENT ---  ---------  -------------------------------------------             
COMMENT   0  'WHAM'     WHAM data used (Wisconsin)                              
COMMENT   1  'VTSS'     Virginia Tech Spectral line Survey                      
COMMENT   2  'SHASSA'   Southern Halpha Sky Survey Atlas                        
COMMENT   3  'STAR'     Star removed                                            
COMMENT   4  'SATUR'    Saturated pixel nearby in continuum exposure            
COMMENT   5  'BRT_OBJ'  Bright star/galaxy - measurements unreliable            
COMMENT   6  'BIG_OBJ'  Near LMC, SMC, or M31; no sources removed               
COMMENT   7  'HI_VEL'   High Velocity in WHAM data                              
COMMENT                                                                         
COMMENT  Composite map generated by Douglas Finkbeiner, Princeton               
COMMENT  Error map is uncertainty for each pixel in R                           
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