On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Peter W. Draper wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Peter W. Draper wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Mark Taylor wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, David Berry wrote:
> > >
> > > > Current ATOOLS will convert those headers into an AST FrameSet
> > > > successfully. Does FITS2NDF work?
> > >
> > > Yes, FITS2NDF converts it to an NDF without any apparent problems
> > > or warnings, and the resulting NDF works in GAIA with WCS present
> > > and (plausibly) correct.
> > >
> > > ds9 copes with the original FITS file and WCS.
> > >
> > > GAIA issue then?
> >
> > Seems likely. I'll have a look.
>
> Ouch, turned out to be quite a bad bug in handling the size of the FITS
> headers, which failed at 2Gb+ (slightly strange as I'm pretty sure I've worked
> with FITS files that large before). I've fixed this for the next release, but
> there isn't a work-around I'm afraid, other than shrinking the size. The
> "imcopy" command can be used to extract a section.
right ho, thanks Peter. FITS2NDF counts as a workaround.
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Mark Taylor Astronomical Programmer Physics, Bristol University, UK
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