[fitsbits] Images getting shifted and wrapping on themselves...?

[Steve Allen]

On Tue 2008-08-26T17:06:53 -0700, gberz3 hath writ:
> appears that the image is shifted to the right or left by so many
> pixels and "wraps" around.

BITPIX = 8 means unsigned integers
BITPIX = 16 or 32 means signed integers

BZERO and BSCALE can be used to modify the meaning of the
linear transformation.

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