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EugeneWaluschka1-Visitor
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January 23, 2013
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readFITS

  • January 23, 2013
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Folks:

Is there a Mathcad dll for reading .fits files? If you know of such a capability please let me know.

Gene

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VladimirN24-Ruby III
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January 27, 2013

Hi,

With what program associated this format of files (".fits")?

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Werner_E25-Diamond I
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January 27, 2013

Its an image format (FITS = Flexible Image Transport System). Quite common at but not restricted to Astronomy.

Can be open by programs like Gimp, Irfanview, Photoshop, but also Mathematica. I'm not sure about Matlab.



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VladimirN24-Ruby III
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February 9, 2013

Thanks, Werner. This file format also supports by MATLAB, LabView, Mathematica, a complete list of programs that open FITS file format can be found here: http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_libraries.html

FITS image viewers and format converters: http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_viewer.html

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