This Starlink User Note is a brief introduction to the CFITSIO package.
For more detailed information on using CFITSIO from C there is a User’s Guide:
“CFITSIO User’s Guide – An Interface to FITS Format Files for C Programmers, v3.0 (MUD/166)”
For more detailed information on using CFISTIO from Fortran, there is a User’s Guide:
“FITSIO User’s Guide – A Subroutine Interface to FITS Format Files for Fortran Programmers, v3/0 (MUD/167)”
There is also a Quick Start Guide:
“CFITSIO Quick Start Guide (MUD/162)”
These documents by William Pence have been issued as Starlink Miscellaneous User Documents:
MUD/166, MUD/167 and MUD/162 respectively. The sources are also available in the
documents directory (/star/docs on Starlink systems) as mud166.tex, mud167.tex and
mud162.tex.