This is the command mGetHdr 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
mGetHdr - Retrieve the header from a FITS image
SYNOPSIS
mGetHdr [-d] [-h hdu] [-s statusfile] img.fits img.hdr
DESCRIPTION
Reads in the header from a FITS image and prints it out to a text file.
OPTIONS
-d Turns on debugging.
-h hdu Retrieve the header from the Fits extension given by hdu. "0" indicates the
primary FITS extension, and is the default used by mGetHdr.
-s statusfile
Output and errors are sent to statusfile instead of to stdout
ARGUMENTS
img.fits
Path to FITS image from which to retrieve the header.
img.hdr
Path to text file where FITS header should be written.
RESULT
Creates output file img.hdr which is a text copy of the FITS header from the input image.
MESSAGES
OK [struct stat="OK", ncard=nrows]
ERROR Cannot open status file: statusfile
ERROR HDU value (hdu) must be a non-negative integer
ERROR Can't open output header file.
ERROR FITS library error
EXAMPLES
Running mGetHdr on a 2MASS Atlas image:
$ mGetHdr 2mass.fits test.hdr
[struct stat="OK", ncard=112]
This creates the text file test.hdr.
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