MissFITS – Astromatic.net

MissFITS is a program that performs basic maintenance and packaging tasks on FITS files using an optimised FITS library. MissFITS can:

add/edit/remove FITS header keywords
split/join Multi-Extension-FITS (MEF) files
unpile/pile FITS data-cubes
create/check/update FITS checksums, using R. Seaman’s protocol.

Authors: Chiara Marmo & Emmanuel Bertin

What’s new?

2010-04-29 : MissFITS V2.4.0 released, fixes critical bug on Mac OS X.
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2009-10-05 : Many AstrOmatic software packages offer the possibility to generate metadata in XML-VOTable format at the end of an execution run.
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2009-05-04 : AstrOmatic binary software is packaged slightly differently from older (TERAPIX) releases. Read about the choices made for packaging AstrOmatic software and the main changes between the old and the new system.
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2007-11-14 : New MissFITS 2.2.7 release available!
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2007-08-08 : New MissFITS 2.2.5 release available!
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Download the latest stable version (V2.4.0)

Both the autoconfigurable source archive and Linux RPM packages are available below. The RPM versions have been optimized to provide the best possible performance on Linux PCs.

Source

x86

x86-64

Click here to generate a source package of the latest development version (unstable, may not even compile!). Older stable package versions can be found here.

Documentation

The MissFITS documentation is complete and reasonably up-to-date.

User's Manual

Acknowledging MissFITS

Marmo, C. & Bertin, E. 2008: MissFITS and WeightWatcher: two optimised tools for managing FITS data, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 394, 2008 J. Lewis, R. Argyle, P. Bunclarck, D. Evans, and E. Gonzales-Solares, eds., p. 619 [PDF] [BibTeX entry].

What’s new?

Download the latest stable version (V2.4.0)

Documentation

Acknowledging MissFITS

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