fits

These files read, write, and scan the headers of FITS files.

Description

These files read, write, and scan the headers of FITS files. FITS is a standard format for astonomical images. All of the files
should be self-documenting with the MATLAB 'help' command. The on-line help also includes examples of usage.

The files have been tested on Matlab v. 5.2, and 5.3.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 5.2 (R10)

[ado ado]

Perfect for FITS manipulation

[Olivier Berné]

Good for handling simple fits files, but does not handle cubes (ie 3d arrays).

[zhirong zeng]

 

[yvette Perrott]

Thanks for the great fitswrite.m file, Roberto. I added

elseif strmatch(friend,'GLNX86')

   bswap = 'b';

to get it to work on my computer :)

[Gustavo Cancelo]

I only need 2D arrays so it works for me, thanks!

[Jiaxin Han]

so you need to ALWAYS set bswap='b'

[Jiaxin Han]

CRUCIAL BUG:
FITS file is always in BIG-ENDIAN format, so one DO NOT need to determine the endianness from computer; instead you need to ALWAYS set bswap='b' when write and read.

[zarrouki]

good

[Eric]

if you have fitsheader search for a specific keyword, it doesn't properly close the file. adding 'fclose(file)' to line 73 in 'fitsheader.m' seems to solve the problem. otherwise, works great.