[Kst] Fwd: KST + FITs

[Adam D. Hincks]

Hi Ted,

A week timescale is fine.  Thanks for responding promptly, and keep me 
posted.  Be assured that we will be reading in lots of FITS data with KST!

Adam

On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Theodore Kisner wrote:

> Yes, this was why I was working on a "unified" FITS data source that could
> read images and tables from any HDU.  Unfortunately, it has not been worked
> on in a while.
>
> Realistically, I won't have time to finish this for another week or so.  Is
> that timeframe acceptable?
>
> When this is finished, then the LFI datasource can be more selective about
> what types of FITS files it wants to handle, and leave the rest to the
> general FITS datasource.
>
> -Ted
>
> On Thursday 01 March 2007 11:46, Barth Netterfield wrote:
>> I'm not totally familiar with the fits data source, but others on this list
>> are.
>>
>> cbn
>>
>> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
>>
>> Subject: KST + FITs
>> Date: Thursday 01 March 2007
>> From: "Adam D. Hincks" <ahincks at princeton.edu>
>> To: Barth Netterfield <netterfield at physics.utoronto.ca>
>>
>> Hi KST gurus,
>>
>> ACT's final data product is a FITS file.  (We use dirfiles along the way,
>> but our astronomers insisted on FITS.)
>>
>> Our FITS files have several header data units (HDUs).  When I try and open
>> one with kst, it seems only to see the first one.  Does kst lack the
>> functionality to read more than one HDU?  Or am I making a mistake
>> somewhere?  I compiled kst (1.3.1) with the cfitsio library.
>>
>> One thing that confuses me (and could be the problem) is that the data
>> wizard identifies the FITS file as "Data source of type:  LFIIO".
>>
>> Any help you could give would be most useful.  Let me know if I should be
>> directing this to someone else.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> P.S.  I followed BLAST's progress on the ice closely via Don's blog.  Glad
>> the flight was a success -- bummer that you couldn't recover too much,
>> though.
>>
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