CFITSIO - A FITS File Subroutine Library
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CFITSIO is a library of C and Fortran subroutines for reading and writing data files in FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) data format. CFITSIO provides simple high-level routines for reading and writing FITS files that insulate the programmer from the internal complexities of the FITS format. CFITSIO also provides many advanced features for manipulating and filtering the information in FITS files.
What's New:
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26 Jan 2010 - CFITSIO Version 3.24 released. This release contains a few relatively
minor bug fixes related to reading and writing compressed FITS files
in the tiled image compression format. For a complete list of changes, see
What's New in this release.
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8 Jan 2010 - CFITSIO Version 3.23 released. This release contains a number of
significant enhancements related to reading and writing compressed FITS files
in the tiled image compression format, as well a several other improvements.
This release also contain a new 1.4.0 version of the
fpack and funpack
image compression utilities.
- 9 Sept 2009 - New version 2.2 of
CCFITS
has been released. CCfits is an objected oriented interface to the CFITSIO
library written in C++.
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July 2009 - New version 5.3 of the Fv FITS file viewer and editor
is available .
Download the CFITSIO Software Library:
- Latest fully supported release: Complete V3.24 Source Code Package (compile it yourself):
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Windows PC precompiled binary DLL shared libraries - see the included README files for instructions
- For Visual C++ (version 3.140)
- For Borland C++ (version 3.040 - newer versions are not currently available)
- Various sample multi-threaded test programs.
- How to build CFITSIO as a Universal Binary on a OS-X Macintosh PC.
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Unsupported
previous versions of CFITSIO and FITSIO
- Go directly to the ftp area
Documentation:
- CFITSIO Quick Start Guide (also PDF version or .tar file of all the html pages).
- C Programmer Reference Guide (also PDF version or .tar file of all the html pages).
-
Fortran Programmer Reference Guide
(also
PDF version).
- Examples of CFITSIO's Extended File Name Filters
- Data compression support in CFITSIO.
- Background information about CFITSIO
- Acknowledgements of contributors to CFITSIO
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Major users of CFITSIO
- FITS resources - General information about the FITS format
- The NASA FITS Support Office - a large and fairly complete source of information about FITS
Related Software Tools:
- NEW! fpack and funpack FITS image compression utility programs.
- Instantly verify any FITS file over the Web.
- FITS Toolkit - Suite of simple C programs illustrating how to use CFITSIO
- cookbook.f - Fortran example program that calls CFITSIO subroutines
- Fv - The FITS file viewer and editor and portal to the NEW Hera data analysis service.
- fitsverify - Program that tests whether a FITS file conforms to all the format requirements
Interfaces for calling CFITSIO from Other Programming Languages:
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Contact the original developer for questions about
these interfaces.
- C++: CCfits
- C-sharp: FitsLib (no longer supported; use CSharpFITS instead.)
- Perl: CFITSIO.pm
- Tcl: fitsTcl
- Python: PFITS
- Ruby: RFits
- S-lang: CFITSIO wrappers for the S-lang programmer's library and interpreter.
- MatLab: MFITSIO
- LabVIEW: GFITSIO
- Adobe Photoshop: Liberator
E-mail Notification List
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To receive e-mail notification about new releases of CFITSIO, subscribe to the
fitsionews mailing list by sending mail to
majordomo@athena.gsfc.nasa.gov
with the body (not the subject) of your message comprising the line
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subscribe fitsionews <your-email-address>
The latest reference to CFITSIO is: Pence, W. 1999, in ASP Conf. Ser., Vol. 172, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VIII, ed. D. Mehringer, R. Plante, and D. Roberts (San Francisco: ASP), 487
FITSIO is maintained by: Dr. William D. Pence, (email: pence 'at' milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov)
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