fitstoolz 0.0.1b1

Python libraries for interfacing with FITS data in an intuitive way

Python libraries for interfacing with FITS images in an intuitive way

Features

• Image and coordinate data indexing is consistent

• Simple API for adding, transposing and expanding axes (or dimensions)

• Xarray support

• Zarr support

Example Usage

In[1]: from fitstools.reader import FitsData

In[2]: myfits = FitsData("example-image.fits")
       myfits.coord_names

Out[2]: ['STOKES', 'FREQ', 'DEC', 'RA']

In[3]: myfits.dshape
Out[3]: (1, 504, 100, 100) # these dimensions match the labels above

In[4]: myfits.coords

Out[4]:
Coordinates:
STOKES   (stokes) int32 4B dask.array<chunksize=(1,), meta=np.ndarray>
FREQ     (spectral) float64 4kB 8.803e+08 8.804e+08 ... 9.328e+08 9.329e+08
RA       (celestial.ra) float64 800B 53.16 53.16 53.16 ... 53.1 53.1 53.1
DEC      (celesstial.dec) float64 800B -28.16 -28.16 ... -28.11 -28.11