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.

`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