Paketti: libqfits0 (6.2.0-9) [debports]

Library offering easy access to FITS files

FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) is a data format most used in astronomy.

qfits is a stand-alone library written in C to interact with files complying with the FITS format. It is fast and portable over any kind of POSIX-compliant platform. Functionalities offered by this library are:

 * Header queries (get keywords, values).
 * Header manipulation (load/modify/save).
 * Header/data offset queries.
 * Pixel loading/saving to memory.
 * Support for files of any dimension (NAXIS).
 * Support for FITS extensions, including ASCII and binary tables.

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