A representation of a FITS binary table FitsTable
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.
astColumnNull: Get/set the null value for a column of a FitsTable
astColumnSize: Get number of bytes needed to hold a full column of data
astGetColumnData: Retrieve all the data values stored in a column
astGetTableHeader: Get the FITS headers from a FitsTable
astPutColumnData: Store data values in a column
astPutTableHeader: Store FITS headers within a FitsTable