How To Install Fitspng?

How To Install Fitspng?

fitspng

FITS to PNG converter

Maintainer: Debian Astronomy Team



Section: science

Install fitspng

  • Debian apt-get install fitspng Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install fitspng Click to copy
  • Kali Linux apt-get install fitspng Click to copy
  • Raspbian apt-get install fitspng Click to copy

fitspng

FITS to PNG converter

Fitspng is an utility intended to convert of the natural high dynamic range of FITS images, directly representing measured data, to the limited numerical range of PNG format widely used in computer graphics. Fitspng implements a global tone mapping technique by a set of tone functions using parameters provided by user or by machine estimate on base of a robust count statistics. Moreover, the conversion keeps an important FITS meta-information as a text part of PNG header.

Installing fitspng command is simple. just copy one of the above commands for your operating system and paste it into terminal. This command is available for Debian, Ubuntu, Kali and Raspbian operating systems. Once you run the command it will install the latest version of fitspng 2023 package in your OS.