[fitsbits] convert to fits

[David Berry]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Motallebi, Habib wrote:

> Hi,
> Is there online utilities to convet some image files to fits format?.
> We have .flf (custom format) that is in unshort (pixles). I like to conver
> them
> to .fits format file. 
> habib
> 

Depending on exactly what your custom format is, you may be able to use
the Starlink CONVERT package which allows conversion between many
different image data formats. It uses the Starlink NDF format as a
intermediate format, so you would convert your format to NDF, then convert
NDF to FITS. You should look at the "unf2ndf" command which converts a
sequential unformatted file to an NDF (you will also need ndf2fits).

Documentation for CONVERT is available at:

http://www.starlink.rl.ac.uk/star/docs/sun55.htx/sun55.html

To get a copy of CONVERT, see:

http://www.starlink.rl.ac.uk/cgi-store/storetop

CONVERT comes under "Applications and User Interfaces" 

Hope this helps.



David Berry


Starlink applications programmer