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

Classes

Fits

ImageCompressionOptions

ImageScale

ImageScalingOptions

ImageWriteOptions

MemFileManager