Fast FITS Cutter

Fast FITS Cutter uses the unsafe bindings to CFITSIO from fitsio to quickly make cutouts of FITS images by using the capability of reading only a small region instead of the entire image.

Installation

To install this package, first install CFITSIO e.g. through

dnf install cfitsio cfitsio-devel

Afterwards, simply clone the repository and run

cargo build --release
cargo install --path .

Usage

 Usage: ffc [OPTIONS] --size <SIZE> <FITSIMAGE> 
 Arguments:
  <FITSIMAGE>  Input image to make a cutout out of

Options:
      --ra <RA>                    Right ascension to centre cutout on [default: 0.0]
      --dec <DEC>                  Declination to centre cutout on [default: 0.0]
      --size <SIZE>                Size of the cutout in degrees
      --outfile <OUTFILE>          Name of the output file [default: output]
      --sourcetable <SOURCETABLE>  CSV table to read cutout positions from. Should contain three columns with name, right ascension and declination [default: ]
  -h, --help                       Print help
  -V, --version                    Print version