lsst.afw.fits

lsst.afw.fits provides utilities for reading and writing FITS files. It includes support for pickling Python objects as FITS.

Contributing

lsst.afw.fits is developed at https://github.com/lsst/afw. You can find Jira issues for this module under the afw component.

Python API reference

lsst.afw.fits Package

Functions

combineMetadata(first, second)
compressionAlgorithmFromString(arg0)
compressionAlgorithmToString(arg0)
getAllowImageCompression()
imageCompressionDisabled() Create a context where FITS image compression is disabled.
makeLimitedFitsHeader(metadata, excludeNames)
readMetadata(fileName, hdu, strip)
reduceToFits(obj) Pickle to FITS
scalingAlgorithmFromString(arg0)
scalingAlgorithmToString(arg0)
setAllowImageCompression(allow)
unreduceFromFits(cls, data, size) Unpickle from FITS