Simple FITS Header Fixing Tool

Status: Completed 2022-10-17

Overview

It seems like everyone has a simple tool for adjusting FITS header keywords. This is a fairly simple-minded one written out of frustration with the limitations of the modhead routine distributed with the CFITSIO package. It utilizes the ccdproc.ImageFileCollection functionality (based on the astropy.io.fits module) to change a FITS keyword in a list of input files, using python’s smarter-than-C string functionality.

Usage

The script usage can be displayed by calling the script with the -h option: