Comments on: FITS to ASCII http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2007/fits-to-ascii/ Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: vlk http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2007/fits-to-ascii/comment-page-1/#comment-7 vlk Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:06:40 +0000 http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2007/fits-to-ascii/#comment-7 <p>vlk said...</p> <p> GDL is a free alternative to IDL, and apparently is fully syntax compatible. It can be downloaded from http://gnudatalanguage.sourceforge.net/.</p> <p> I successfully installed it about a year ago on my powerbook running X.3, but had to remove it later because it messed with ImageMagick libraries.</p> vlk said…

GDL is a free alternative to IDL, and apparently is fully syntax compatible. It can be downloaded from http://gnudatalanguage.sourceforge.net/.

I successfully installed it about a year ago on my powerbook running X.3, but had to remove it later because it messed with ImageMagick libraries.

]]> By: Hyunsook http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2007/fits-to-ascii/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Hyunsook Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:47:14 +0000 http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2007/fits-to-ascii/#comment-6 <p>Not many are aware of IDL. Particularly statisticians. I have been looking for open sources that extract ascii information from fits files. Can GDL (GNU Data Languages) be a solution?</p> Not many are aware of IDL. Particularly statisticians. I have been looking for open sources that extract ascii information from fits files. Can GDL (GNU Data Languages) be a solution?

]]> By: vlk http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2007/fits-to-ascii/comment-page-1/#comment-5 vlk Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:12:45 +0000 http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2007/fits-to-ascii/#comment-5 <p> FTOOLS and CIAO are not all that different when it comes to dealing with FITS. They just output the results differently. Both are built upon the CFITSIO library from HEASARC.</p> <p> Anyone that plans to read in FITS files for use in C or Fortran are better off using the CFITSIO function calls directly in their programs.</p> <p> IDL users can use the IDL-Astro library. The easiest of the routines to use are readfits() and mrdfits(). The IDL-Astro library also contains numerous functions to manipulate every element of a FITS file (images, table columns, headers, etc), see the IDL-Astro contents.</p> FTOOLS and CIAO are not all that different when it comes to dealing with FITS. They just output the results differently. Both are built upon the CFITSIO library from HEASARC.

Anyone that plans to read in FITS files for use in C or Fortran are better off using the CFITSIO function calls directly in their programs.

IDL users can use the IDL-Astro library. The easiest of the routines to use are readfits() and mrdfits(). The IDL-Astro library also contains numerous functions to manipulate every element of a FITS file (images, table columns, headers, etc), see the IDL-Astro contents.

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