mPutHdr - Online in the Cloud

This is the command mPutHdr that can be run in the OnWorks free hosting provider using one of our multiple free online workstations such as Ubuntu Online, Fedora Online, Windows online emulator or MAC OS online emulator

PROGRAM:

NAME


mPutHdr - Replace a FITS image's header with one from an ASCII header template

SYNOPSIS


mPutHdr [-d level] [-s statusfile] [-h hdu] in.fits out.fits hdr.template

DESCRIPTION


Replaces the header of the input file with one supplied by the user.

OPTIONS


-d Turns on debugging to the specified level (this version only supports level "1").

-s statusfile
Output and errors are sent to statusfile instead of to stdout

-h hdu Write to the specified FITS extnension (HDU).

ARGUMENTS


in.fits
Input FITS file.

out.fits
Path to output FITS file (with new header)

hdr.template
ASCII header template to write into out.fits.

RESULT


[struct stat="OK"]

Creates FITS file out.fits which contains the same data as in.fits, but has the contents
of template.hdr as its header in the specified extension (default 0, or primary
extension). numlines is the number of FITS header lines found in the input header
template.

MESSAGES


OK [struct stat="OK"]

ERROR Cannot open status file: statusfile

ERROR HDU value (hdu) must be a non-negative integer

ERROR Not enough memory for output data image array.

ERROR Input wcsinit() failed.

ERROR FITS library error

EXAMPLES


After running mGetHdr to write the contents of a FITS header to a file, we can edit that
file to make corrections (remove extraneous lines, add HISTORY lines, etc). Then, to
write a file with the fixed header:

$ mPutHdr acs.fits acs_out.fits acs_fixed.hdr
[struct stat="OK"]

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