Introduction

The EasyFITS package provides an interface for reading/writing FITS files (widely used in Astronomy) in Julia.

The source code is on GitHub.

Table of contents

• Access to FITS files
• • Direct reading of data
  • Direct writing of data
• FITS image extensions
• • Image HDU properties
  • Reading a FITS image
  • Creating an image extension
• FITS Table extensions
• • Reading a single table column
  • Reading several table columns
  • Creating a table extension
  • Writing table columns
  • Table HDU Properties
• The Grammar of EasyFITS
• Reference
• • ltoh
  • ntoh
  • readchomp
  • read!
  • FITS Files
  • FITS Header Data Units (HDUs)

Index

• EasyFITS.FitsFile
• EasyFITS.FitsHDU
• EasyFITS.FitsLogic
• EasyFITS.Header
• EasyFITS.TableData
• Base.Filesystem.filemode
• Base.close
• Base.eachmatch
• Base.flush
• Base.isopen
• Base.isreadonly
• Base.iswritable
• Base.nameof
• Base.open
• Base.open
• Base.pathof
• Base.position
• Base.read
• Base.seek
• Base.seekend
• Base.seekstart
• EasyFITS.cfunc
• EasyFITS.cpointer
• EasyFITS.ctype
• EasyFITS.is_named
• EasyFITS.openfits
• EasyFITS.readfits
• EasyFITS.readfits!
• EasyFITS.type_from_bitpix
• EasyFITS.type_from_code
• EasyFITS.type_from_letter
• EasyFITS.type_to_bitpix
• EasyFITS.type_to_code
• EasyFITS.type_to_letter
• EasyFITS.write!
• EasyFITS.writefits
• EasyFITS.writefits!