MCELS_header_fix

The MCELS images (both for the LMC and SMC) have

Space Telescope Science Institute

Synopsis

The MCELS images (both for the LMC and SMC) have some header info that is depracated, notably:

Command Line Usage

usage: head_fix.py filename

Description

Primary routines:

doit

Primary Routines

doit

Notes

WARNING - while this does fix the actual problem one will likely still see warnings

apparently there are problems with the astroy wcs library. To suppress these warnings add to your code the following:

import warnings from astropy.wcs import WCS, FITSFixedWarning warnings.filterwarnings(‘ignore’, category=FITSFixedWarning, message=”.*datfix.*”)

Version History

250731 ksl

Coding begun

Functions

fix_fits_header(filename)
parse_non_iso_date(date_str)	Try to convert 'DD/MM/YY' → 'YYYY-MM-DD'
steer(argv)	Just steer

Module Contents

MCELS_header_fix.fix_fits_header(filename)

MCELS_header_fix.parse_non_iso_date(date_str)

Try to convert ‘DD/MM/YY’ → ‘YYYY-MM-DD’

MCELS_header_fix.steer(argv)

Just steer