SBIG Images in Iraf

nwj781 wrote on Jul 21, 2009

Hello,

I was recently given the task of reducing a bunch of SBIG format images (STV?). Is there an iraf tool to convert them to fits? Is there a non-iraf conversion tool that works for linux?

Thank you,
Neil

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Jul 21, 2009

There is no specific IRAF task for SBIG images, however the IMPORT task in the DATAIO package can probably read the data assuming you can parameterize the header offset, raster size, etc. If you can supply me with a sample image I can give you a database entry for IMPORT to convert this automatically, otherwise a Google search will turn up a number of conversion programs to produce FITS (not all are linux, though).

-Mike

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