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== Astronomical FITS files with PyFITS == | == Astronomical FITS files with PyFITS == | ||
[http://www.stsci.edu/institute/software_hardware/pyfits PyFITS] is available from the Space Telescope Science Institute, and can be added easily to a Python installation that already and NumPy and SciPy. As of January 2013, the current version 3.1.1 of PyFITS | |||
supports all the functions needed to manage image and table data in the standard Flexibile Image Transport System (FITS) files of astronomy. | |||
Revision as of 07:20, 26 February 2013
Given that NumPy provides multidimensional arrays, and that there is core support through the Python Imaging Library to display images and manipulate images in the Python environment, it's easy to take the next step and combine these for scientific image processing. As part of our short course on Python for Physics and Astronomy we begin by exploring how Python handle image input and output
Python Imaging Library - PIL
Before we get into the broad area, there is a caveat for users of Python 3. The essential Python Imaging Library or PIL is not yet completely compatible with new version of Python. Consequently the FITS tools we will need for astronomical image processing are also currently only supported in the mature versions of Python 2. The comments that follow are based on Python 2.7.
The current version of PyFITS is v3.1.1 (January 02 2013).
Astronomical FITS files with PyFITS
PyFITS is available from the Space Telescope Science Institute, and can be added easily to a Python installation that already and NumPy and SciPy. As of January 2013, the current version 3.1.1 of PyFITS supports all the functions needed to manage image and table data in the standard Flexibile Image Transport System (FITS) files of astronomy.