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[Guest_DonPMitchell_*]

Can anyone recommend a good program to convert FITS images into something manageable like TIFF?

[Guest_DonPMitchell_*]

Many thanks guys! FITS Liberator does the trick (I use Photoshop CS2).

I also found that I can generally load the FITS images by peeking at their header with wordpad and then opening the file as a raw image. But having a plug-in is easier.

ISIS is intriguing. I have the sourcecode, and kind of deconstructed its files that do Mariner-10 calibration corrections. I had an impression that IRIS itself won't run on the Windows OS, but I could be wrong.

For heavy-duty image processing, I generally use my own C++ code, which reads images into an array of floats. Signal processing was my "day job", so its fun for me to write filters instead of trusting others to do it (e.g., proper Kaiser-windowed sinc fiters and such).