PyFITS Users Guide

• Introduction
  • Installation
  • User Support
• Quick Tutorial
  • Reading and Updating Existing FITS Files
    • Opening a FITS file
    • Working with FITS Headers
    • Working with Image Data
    • Working With Table Data
    • Save File Changes
  • Creating a New FITS File
    • Creating a New Image File
    • Creating a New Table File
  • Convenience Functions
• FITS Headers
  • Header of an HDU
  • The Header Attribute
    • Value Access, Updating, and Creating
    • COMMENT, HISTORY, and Blank Keywords
    • Keyword Wildcards
  • Card Images
  • CONTINUE Cards
  • HIERARCH Cards
• Image Data
  • Image Data as an Array
  • Scaled Data
    • Reading Scaled Image Data
    • Writing Scaled Image Data
  • Data Sections
• Table Data
  • Table Data as a Record Array
    • What is a Record Array?
    • Metadata of a Table
    • Reading a FITS Table
  • Table Operations
    • Selecting Records in a Table
    • Merging Tables
    • Appending Tables
  • Scaled Data in Tables
  • Creating a FITS Table
    • Column Creation
• Verification
  • FITS Standard
  • Verification Options
  • Verifications at Different Data Object Levels
    • Verification at HDUList
    • Verification at Each HDU
    • Verification at Each Card
  • Verification using the FITS Checksum Keyword Convention
• Less Familiar Objects
  • ASCII Tables
    • Creating an ASCII Table
  • Variable Length Array Tables
    • Creating a Variable Length Array Table
  • Random Access Groups
    • Header and Summary
    • Data: Group Parameters
    • Data: Image Data
    • Creating a Random Access Group HDU
  • Compressed Image Data
    • Header and Summary
    • Data
    • Creating a Compressed Image HDU
• FITS Header Schemas
  • Enter pyfits.schema
  • PyFITS schema basics
    • Gotchas
  • Using callable properties
  • Indexed keywords
    • Multiple indices
  • Schema inheritance
  • Supported keyword properties
    • mandatory
    • valid
    • position
    • value
    • indices
• Executable Scripts
  • fitscheck
  • fitsdiff
• Miscellaneous Features
  • Warning Messages
  • Differs
• Reference Manual
  • Converting a 3-color image (JPG) to separate FITS images