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Old 01-12-2014, 05:27 PM
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mithrandir (Andrew)
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GIMP will export as FITS, but as with all the other programs you get very little data in the header. e.g.:

Code:
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                                                                                                                
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