[fitsbits] converting to fits format

Doug Mink dmink at cfa.harvard.edu
Tue Aug 1 12:21:56 EDT 2000


The WCSTools task newfits creates a header which can be cat'ed
with a binary data file into an almost acceptable FITS image.
You still have to pad the file out into an integral number of
2880-byte blocks.  Online documentation of newfits is at

  http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/wcstools/newfits.html

Information about the WCSTools package, which includes a bunch
of FITS file access and catalog search software as well as
access to world coordinate system information in FITS files is at

  http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/wcstools/

-Doug Mink
 Telescope Data Center
 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
 Cambridge, Massachusetts USA



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