A representation of a FITS binary table
Note - it is not recommended to use the FitsTable class to store very large tables.
FitsTables are primarily geared towards the needs of the "
-TAB"
algorithm defined in FITS-WCS
paper 2, and so do not support all features of FITS binary tables. In particularly, they do not provide
any equivalent to the following features of FITS binary tables: "
heap"
data (i.e. binary data
following the main table), columns holding complex values, columns holding variable length
arrays, scaled columns, column formats, columns holding bit values, 8-byte integer values or
logical values.
AST_COLUMNNULL: Get/set the null value for a column of a FitsTable
AST_COLUMNSIZE: Get number of bytes needed to hold a full column of data
AST_GETCOLUMNDATA: Retrieve all the data values stored in a column
AST_GETTABLEHEADER: Get the FITS headers from a FitsTable
AST_PUTCOLUMNDATA: Store data values in a column
AST_PUTTABLEHEADER: Store FITS headers within a FitsTable