[daip] routine to write FITS-compatible files

[Paul Matthew Sutter]

Thanks for the quick reply Eric. I am familiar with CFITSIO and am
currently using it. I was having difficulty getting the headers/tables
correct. I was just wondering if someone has already written something
like this so I wouldn't have to reinvent the wheel.

Another possibility: the mocks I'm making are rather simple (one
channel, one pointing, etc.). Is there a way to write a simple binary
file and still have AIPS read it? Or does it have to be a full FITS
file? Thanks!

-Paul-

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Eric Greisen <egreisen at nrao.edu> wrote:
> Paul Matthew Sutter wrote:
>>
>> Hello Eric, my name is Paul Sutter, and I am a post-doc working with
>> Ben Wandelt. I am interested in making some mock radio interferometer
>> observations and deconvolving these mock images with CLEAN in AIPS.
>> However, I am having some difficulty getting the file format correct.
>> Are there any C routines that read and/or write AIPS-compatible FITS
>> files? Thank you! -Paul-
>
>
> There is an entire package of routines called CFITSIO which is described and
> available from the main FITS information web site:
> http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/
>
> I could help with the debugging if necessary - this package is not used that
> much in UV data applications (although bcotton's OBIT package uses it).
> There are data emulation tasks in AIPS called DTSIM and UVCON which could
> help with this issue.
>
> Eric Greisen