Convesion into *.FITS format, for DS9

[bojan]

After familiarizing with DS9 software (http://ds9.si.edu/site/Home.html) while being engaged with "Analysing the Universe" course on Coursera.org, I am thinking of using this free package for photometry.
Do you guys know of suitable tiff -> FITS conversion software?

[SteveInNZ]

Deep Sky Stacker will read in a TIFF and save it as a FITS but you won't have the header information in the FITS file that your application might use.

Steve.

[Geoff45]

Same comments can be made about Maxim and PixInsight.
Geoff

[bojan]

Thanks guys, I forgot about DSS :-(

I also found this app:
http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/bifsconv.exe

It came from here: http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_bif.html

[mithrandir]

GIMP will export as FITS, but as with all the other programs you get very little data in the header. e.g.:

SIMPLE = T
BITPIX = 8
NAXIS = 3
NAXIS1 = 912
NAXIS2 = 1287 NAXIS3 = 3
BZERO = 0.000000
BSCALE = 1.000000
DATAMIN = 0.000000
DATAMAX = 255.000000
HISTORY THIS FITS FILE WAS GENERATED BY GIMP USING FITSRW
COMMENT FitsRW is (C) Peter Kirchgessner (peter@kirchgessner.net), but available
COMMENT under the GNU general public licence.
COMMENT For sources see http://www.kirchgessner.net
COMMENT Image type within GIMP:
GIMP_RGB_IMAGE
COMMENT Sequence for NAXIS3 : RED, GREEN, BLUE
END

[bojan]

A bit more on FITS header.. how to edit.

http://astropy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/io/fits/
http://www.astropy.org/astropy-tutorials/FITS-header.html

Obviously, at least plate solving exercise must preceed the editing of the FITS header.

[algwat]

Gidday Bojan,
You mentioned ImageJ in a previous post, are you using it?
it can be scripted to do these conversions. And can work with keywords.

if you plate solving your image you can also make a text file of the image data to read with other programs.

kind regards, Alan