FITS I/O classes for GSC viewer

[Nicolas Devillard]

On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, octavi wrote:
[...]
> Does anybody know some classes for Visual C++ able to read and write
> this kind of image format?

About the FITS format itself, check:
FITS archive at NRAO
http://fits.nrao.edu
Contains many links to FITS software.

AIPS develops and distributes C++ classes to read/write/handle FITS
format, the source code is available here:
http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/src/

Even better: an ANSI C library to do exactly the same, check out:
FITSIO home page
http://legacy.gsfc.nasa.gov/fitsio/

If you are looking for basic sets of functionalities to work with FITS
files, here are 2 software sets which may help:

FTOOLS: a general package of software to manipulate FITS files
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/ftools/ftools_menu.html

ECLIPSE: ESO C Library for an Image Processing Environment
http://www.eso.org/~ndevilla/adonis/eclipse

> Or, even better, does anybody know some
> source code that could help me into develop this GSC viewer.

Check out the StarCat home page:
http://archive.eso.org/starcat/

Hope it helps,
--Nicolas
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