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 (Geoff)]

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 (Andrew)]

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-tutor...TS-header.html

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

[algwat (Alan)]

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