[fitsbits] HEALPIX fits files

[Mark Calabretta]

On Thu 2005/01/13 13:47:05 CDT, Wayne Landsman wrote
in a message to: fitsbits at donar.cv.nrao.edu

>Eric Greisen wrote:
>> AIPS cannot handle HEALPIX but can someone ?
>
>There is FORTRAN, C and IDL code for reading HEALPIX FITS files 
>available by registering at http://www.eso.org/science/healpix/.   There 
>is also a IDL image display program MAPVIEW available from the WMAP 
>software library (http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/map/m_sw.cfm). 

Also, Roukema's isolat package

   http://cosmo.torun.pl/GPLdownload/dodec/isolat-0.1.12.tar.gz

is available (GPL) for converting between pixel number and position,
finding the pixel closest to a given position, etc.

Mark Calabretta
ATNF