CFITSIO

Introduction and Description

CFITSIO is a library of C and Fortran subroutines for reading and writing data files in FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) data format. CFITSIO provides simple high-level routines for reading and writing FITS files that insulate the programmer from the internal complexities of the FITS format. CFITSIO also provides many advanced features for manipulating and filtering the information in FITS files.

Version

Version 3.370 installed on 15/9/2014.

Usage

Library is in /usr/local/lib and the following executables are in /usr/local/bin :

funpack - uncompress a FITS file
fpack - compress a FITS file
fitscopy - copy a FITS file with filtering, eg subimage, change format see CFITSIO manual for full list
imcopy - copy and compress an image

gotchas

There may be several different versions of cfitsio on local machines and in /usr/local/lib.

Documentation

Start from here.

Rhys Morris

Last modified: Wed Sep 15 15:29:25 GMT 2014