missfits(1)

missfits1

Edit/check/maintain fits files

Usage

missfits input_file1 [input_file2 ...] [-c configuration-file]

Overview

MissFITS is a program that performs basic maintenance and packaging tasks on FITS files:

- add/edit/remove FITS header keywords

- split/join Multi-Extension-FITS (MEF) files

- unpack/pack FITS data-cubes

- create/check/update FITS checksums, using R. Seaman's protocol
( see http://www.adass.org/adass/proceedings/adass94/seamanr.html)

- compress/decompress FITS data (*not yet available*)

See http://astromatic.net/software/missfits for more details.

Operation modes:

-h, --help

print this help, then exit

-V, --version

print version number, then exit

-d, --dump

dump a default configuration file

Manual

The full documentation for MissFITS is maintained as a PDF manual available at http://astromatic.net/software/missfits

Releases

5 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10
  3. 11–13

Reporting bugs

Please report bugs to the MissFITS software forum at http://astromatic.net/forum.

Authors

Written by Emmanuel Bertin and Chiara Marmo (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris).

License

MissFITS is licensed under the terms of the General Public License (GPL), version 3.

From missfits 2.8.0-5 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.