[fitsbits] moving headers.

[William Pence]

Douglas S. Brenner wrote:
> Hope I'm in the right place.  
> 
> I have a fits file with the desired header in the first HDU test.fits[0] 
> and the data in the second test.fits[1].  I need to combine it into one 
> file that works in ds9.  How do I do this? 

Many software analysis packages provide tools to copy keywords from one 
file to another or extract a single HDU out of a multi-hdu file.

One standalone tool that could help with this is fv 
(http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/ftools/fv/).  It could be 
used to manually cut and paste each keyword from the primary HDU to the 
second HDU.

Bill Pence
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