Merge pull request #46 from embray/issue-46

FITS File Writing Performance

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Add changelog entry for #46; I also decided not to backport it to 3.0.x as most of the changes won't apply well to the old Header code in that branch, and it's not really a bug fix anyways.

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Minor fix to the error reporting when a ColDefs is instantiated with a sequence of non-Column objects

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