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Fitsy FITS Routines

• Routines to handle complete FITS files. ::fitsfile.html
• Routines to handle FITS images.
• Routines to handle FITS tables.
• Routines to handle FITS headers.
  • Creating the FITSHead data structure.
  • Reading and writing FITS headers.
  • Getting basic values in a header.

    Many of the most basic FITS values are retrieved in when a fits file is scanned in memory or read from disk.

    • Basic values
    • Image values
    • Table values

    These data structures are transfered to and from the FITS header with these routines.

    • Load and store basic and image header values.
    • Load and store table header values.

  • Getting the value of cards in a header.
  • Setting the value of cards in a header.
  • Finding cards in a header
  • Inserting, appending and deleting cards in a header.
• Routines to handle the data portion of a FITS file.
  • Moving to and skipping over the data portion of a FITS HDU.
  • Reading FITS image data
• Low level routines to handle FITS Cards.
  • Parsing values from FITS cards.
  • Formatting FITS cards.
  • Finding cards in a header
  • Inserting, appending and deleting cards in a header.

• Examples
  • Basic header examples.
  • Basic card examples.
  • More examples.

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