mGetHdr

montage_wrapper.commands.mGetHdr(in_image, img_header, debug=False, hdu=None, status_file=None)

Reads in the header from a FITS image and prints it out to a text file.

Parameters :

in_image : str

Path to FITS image from which to retrieve the header.

img_header : str

Path to text file where FITS header should be written.

debug : bool, optional

Turns on debugging.

hdu : int, optional

Retrieve the header from the Fits extention given by hdu. “0” indicates the primary FITS extension, and is the default used by mGetHdr.

status_file : str, optional

Output and errors are sent to status_file instead of to stdout