FITS and Confusions: Export vs Import
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- Subject: [mg129906] FITS and Confusions: Export vs Import
- From: Frank Iannarilli <frankeye at cox.net>
- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 02:19:58 -0500 (EST)
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This is for Mathematica 9.
(* !! Export[] "Data", Import "RawData" !! *)
If one tries to Export[] "RawData" it complains. So one needs to:
Export["file.fits",{"Data"->data},"Rules"]
But Import[]ing "Data" yields an array scaled from 0-1. So to get back the arbitrary floating point array that one Export[]ed, one needs to:
Import["file.fits", "RawData"]
Weird asymmetry!