NAME
iofits - FITS data format conversion (pixel depth)
SYNOPSIS
iofits [options] <in_fits> <out_fits> <depth>
DESCRIPTION
iofits converts FITS files of any pixel depth to another pixel depth
(bits per pixel). Depth is given as in the FITS norm :
· 8 bits per pixel, unsigned.
· 16 bits per pixel, signed
· 32 bits per pixel, signed
· -32 IEEE floating point
· -64 IEEE double precision floating point
OPTIONS
-v Verbose mode.
-M megs
Memory handling. To avoid saturate memory for huge cubes, this
parameter specifies the maximum amount of memory to use before
swapping data to disk. The amount is given in Megabytes. (1Meg
= 1,048,576 Bytes) The process time is then considerably slowed
down. Default value is 50 megs.
FILES
Input/output files shall all comply with FITS format.
The original FITS header of the input FITS file is conserved along,
except for the following keywords: NAXIS, NAXISn, BITPIX, BSCALE,
BZERO, which are related to the newly created file.
HISTORY keywords are appended to the FITS header to indicate the
eclipse process modifications, together with the command line which was
used to generate the file.
SEE ALSO
average, filt, deadpix
BUGS
In general, decreasing the resolution in number of bits per pixel
almost always means loss of precision. No rescaling is done on the
data, use this command with care!
25 Feb 1997 iofits(1)