Re: Opening IRAF mosaics

Posted by karenacollins on Jan 17, 2016; 10:06am
URL: http://astroimagej.170.s1.nabble.com/Opening-IRAF-mosaics-tp314p318.html

Thanks for sending the example FITS file.

I don't see any way to open the current file format directly into AIJ. With a little google searching, I did see a special FITS WCS format for cameras with a array/mosaic of multiple cameras. AIJ does not support that mosaic format. Would it be possible to output the image segments from IRAF as individual single images with single headers?

I tried "Aladin" and it opens the file into 16 planes of images, whereas I could only see one image in DS9. Aladin also provides an option to "Export planes" to single image FITS files. I used that option and each of those single image FITS files opens into AIJ just fine.

I don't know how many images you are dealing with, but if it is only a few, maybe the Aladin option will work for you? If you have lots, maybe IRAF provides the same option and could be scripted??

Karen