Restrictions

The MIDAS reader of FITS tapes accepts most of the FITS formats including standard extensions. The MIDAS implementation has the following restrictions:

• the maximum number of axes in images is 16,
• maximally 512 columns are allowed for tables
• matrix and variable size array conventions for BINTABLE are not available,
• information in headers without associated data is not stored to avoid creation of empty data files (e.g. for simple table files).