SUN/227.5

Starlink Project
Starlink User Note 227.5

S. E. Rankin, M. J. Bly

3rd March 2009


CFITSIO — Disk FITS Input/Output Functions

v3.13



Abstract

The CFITSIO package is a series of C functions that provide easy access to FITS files on disk. It was written by William D. Pence of HEASARC (High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center) at the Goddard Space Flight Center, USA. Starlink is grateful to William Pence for giving his permission for CFITSIO to be released on Starlink.

Contents

1 Linking with the CFITSIO Library
2 More Information
3 Release Information