Name
ado_refits - reformat an Adonis FITS file to standard FITS
Synopsis
ado_refits [options] <FITS files...>
Description
ado_refits is used to ’reformat’ features in the cube header that may
not comply 100% with the FITS standard. If time information is present
in the images, it is removed from the planes and written in the header.
Output files have the same name as input files, but no leading path
name. To overwrite files, use ado_refits in the directory where you put
your data files. If you do not want to overwrite your files, go into
the directory where you want to put the new set of files, and fetch the
files by giving their complete path name.
Options
-c Convert HIERACH keywords to COMMENT. This is useful when dealing
with ESO FITS files which contain this non-standard FITS fea-
ture. ado_refits keeps the same header by default, and converts
these keywords to COMMENTs for compatibility with other FITS
readers.
Examples
All files are in current directory, to overwrite them with reformated
data, just use:
ado_refits *.fits
All files are in directory /dev/cdrom/adonis, to output the newly
reformated files in /space/data, you would do:
% cd /space/data
% ado_refits /dev/cdrom/adonis/*.fits
Files
Input files are in Adonis FITS format
Output files are (hopefully) FITS compliant. They do not contain the
time information in the planes anymore, but directly in the FITS
header. Time information is added at the end, under HISTORY keywords.
Use the dfits utility to visualize them, output them to a text file,
etc.
Bugs
The FITS reader implemented in eclipse has been enhanced to support
common errors made in FITS writing. Nevertheless, these errors have to
be reported to the user, and they are in verbose mode. Reporting these
FITS errors to the originators of the files could help a lot improving
the quality of these files.
Typically, the most common reported error is:
*** Invalid format : using STRING
which is generated for illegal keyword values such as:
DOOR = Opened
which should be:
DOOR = ’Opened’
For more information, see the ’sci.astro.fits’ newsgroup, or get the
file "Source of FITS information" at the following URL:
http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/astro/fits/fits_home.html
(updated July 1996)
Author
N. Devillard -- ESO