view-fits

Documentation

Overview

view-fits is a simple program to display images in a FITS file.

Usage of view-fits: $ view-fits [file1 [file2 [...]]]

Examples:

$ view-fits astrogo/fitsio/testdata/file-img2-bitpix+08.fits
$ view-fits astrogo/fitsio/testdata/file-img2-bitpix*.fits
$ view-fits http://data.astropy.org/tutorials/FITS-images/HorseHead.fits
$ view-fits file:///some/file.fits

Controls:

• left/right arrows: switch to previous/next file
• up/down arrows: switch to previous/next image in the current file
• r: reload/redisplay current image
• z: resize window to fit current image
• p: print current image to 'output.png'
• ?: show help
• q/ESC: quit