Re: Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) file format support

[Thomas D. Dean]

I have not used these, but, linux has several open source fits thingees.

>apropos fits | grep fits
fitstopnm (1)        - convert a FITS file into a portable anymap
pnmtofits (1)        - convert a portable anymap into FITS format
>apt-cache search fits | grep fits
libcfitsio3 - shared library for I/O with FITS format data files
libcfitsio3-dbg - library for I/O with FITS format data files (debugging
symbols)
libcfitsio3-dev - static library for I/O with FITS format data files
libcfitsio3-doc - documentation for cfitsio
libastro-fits-cfitsio-perl - Perl extension for using the cfitsio
library
libastro-fits-header-perl - Perl tools for reading, modifying and
writing FITS headers
libccfits-dev - static library for I/O with FITS format data files
libccfits-doc - documentation for CCfits
libccfits0 - shared library for I/O with FITS format data files
libqfits-dev - Development files for libqfits
libqfits0 - Library offering easy access to FITS files
python-pyfits - Python module for reading, writing, and manipulating
FITS files
python-pyfits-doc - Documentation for PyFITS
qfits-tools - FITS manipulation tools
slang-cfitsio - read and write FITS files from S-Lang