April 25, 2017
5:51 p.m.
On 04/25/2017 01:34 PM, Anne Archibald wrote:
I know they're not numpy-compatible, but FITS header values are space-padded; does that occur elsewhere?
Strings in FITS headers are delimited by single quotes. Some keywords (only a handful) are required to have values that are blank-padded (in the FITS file) if the value is less than eight characters. Whether you get trailing blanks when you read the header depends on the FITS reader. I use astropy.io.fits to read/write FITS files, and that interface strips trailing blanks from character strings: TARGPROP= 'UNKNOWN ' / Proposer's name for the target
fd = fits.open("test.fits") s = fd[0].header['targprop'] len(s) 7
Phil