[fitsbits] crop FITS images
Steve Allen
sla at ucolick.org
Thu Oct 17 22:42:47 EDT 2002
On Thu 2002-10-17T10:55:52 -0400, William Pence hath writ:
> Any program that uses CFITSIO to open an image shares this capability, but
> in particular the 'fitscopy' program that is distributed with the CFITSIO
> library may be used to copy sections of image as shown below:
> These examples extract a 100 by 100 pixel subimage out of the input image,
> starting at pixel location (101,201). The coordinate system keywords are
> also updated in the output image. In the second example, the output image
> is also compressed with the gzip algorithm to reduce disk space.
Does this update the IRAF image section keywords also?
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