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On 10/05/2018 09:49 PM, Shark8 wrote:
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> Most of the anticipated usage for where I am right now would be producing FITS files, likely in something that would boil down to a coupling like this:

For that you can probably get by with something that translates your image into 
a sequence of FITS "blocks" and writes them to a file:

FITS.Write (Image => Image, File_Name => "George");

There doesn't seem to be any reason to store a FITS object.

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Jeff Carter
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