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Title

A FITS Image Reader for Mathematica

Author

Roberto G. Abraham

Organization:

Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University

Old MathSource #

0210-452

Revision date

2000-02-04

Description

The vast majority of professional astronomical images are distributed in FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) format, as opposed to more common image formats such as GIF or JPEG. Mathematica cannot directly handle FITS images with the Import[] function. I have therefore written a package which allows FITS data to be read into Mathematica. This package uses MathLink to call the publicly available NASA CFITSIO library.

This package has been tested using Mathematica v.4.0

Subjects

	Wolfram Technology > Front End > Importing
	Wolfram Technology > Linking Technology > MathLink

Keywords

Importing, Mathlink, Image processing

Downloads

Fits.m (4 KB) - Mathematica Package

Fitsreader.zip (449.7 KB) - Zip file in PKZIP format containing the whole distribution

ReadingFitsImages.nb (859.4 KB) - Installation and example notebook for Fits.m

fitsread.exe (641 KB) - MathLink executable for Windows 95

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