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Default FITS Reader

Jussi Saarivirta edited this page Aug 1, 2021 · 2 revisions

The library provides a minimal implementation of a FITS reader.

It's important to note however that the solver itself is not dependent on any FITS or any other image format reader. The solver only requires a pixel buffer, with bit depth and image dimensions to operate - therefore it's format agnostic. It operates with the IImage interface instead, which can then be implemented by various image format readers.

The DefaultFitsReader was included because currently there doesn't seem to be any up-to-date, multi-platform FITS implementations available in C#. It was originally built for testing purposes, hence why not much attention was given to it. Since in most cases we're dealing with monochrome FITS images, that's the only thing the implementation covers.