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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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