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)
makeLimitedFitsHeader(metadata[, excludeNames])
readMetadata(*args, **kwargs)	Overloaded function.
reduceToFits(obj)	Pickle to FITS
unreduceFromFits(cls, data, size)	Unpickle from FITS

Classes

CompressionAlgorithm(value[, names, module, ...])
CompressionOptions
DitherAlgorithm(value[, names, module, ...])
Fits
MemFileManager
QuantizationOptions
ScalingAlgorithm(value[, names, module, ...])