Program:      FITSREAD

Purpose:      Load FITS images from file or URL into a GIPSY set.

Category:     FITS, UTILITY

File:         fitsread.src

Author:       J.P. Terlouw

Description:  Simple FITS reader for images. It has been written in Python
              and is based on PyFITS.

Keywords:

   FITSFILE=  Filename or URL of the FITS file.

   HDU=       If the FITS file contains more than one HDU, the HDU number.

   OUTSET=    Name of the output set.


Example:      

   <USER> fitsread
   <USER> FITSREAD FITSFILE=aurora.fits
   Filename: aurora.fits
   No.    Name         Type      Cards   Dimensions   Format
   0    PRIMARY     PrimaryHDU     125  (530, 530)    int16
   1    PHOTOMETRIC CALTABLE  BinTableHDU     39  16R x 4C      [1D, 1D, 1D, 1J]
   <USER> FITSREAD HDU=0
   <USER> FITSREAD OUTSET=aurora
   <STATUS>  FITSREAD   +++ FINISHED +++

Updates:      Feb  3, 2009: JPT, Document created.
              Aug 24, 2010: JPT, Set non-finite pixel values to GIPSY BLANK.
              Sep 16, 2014: VOG, Changed attributes key and ascard to
                                 keyword and cards (deprecation warnings)
              May 04, 2016: VOG, Import pyfits with try/except from astropy