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📛 NAME

Image::ExifTool::FITS — Read Flexible Image Transport System metadata

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
📖 Read all FITS metadata	exiftool image.fits	Dump all FITS header records
🔍 Extract specific tags	exiftool -TAG image.fits	Retrieve a single FITS keyword value
📋 List all FITS tags	exiftool -list -fits:all image.fits	Show available FITS tag names
💾 Write FITS metadata	exiftool -TAG=VALUE image.fits	Set or update a FITS header keyword
📂 Batch process	exiftool -r -ext fits /path/	Recursively process all .fits files

📖 SYNOPSIS

This module is used by Image::ExifTool

📝 DESCRIPTION

This module contains definitions required by Image::ExifTool to read meta information from FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) images. FITS is the standard data format used in astronomy 🌌 for storing, transmitting, and analyzing scientific data and images.

👤 AUTHOR

Copyright 2003-2022, Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at gmail.com)

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

🔗 REFERENCES

<https://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_standard.html>

📚 SEE ALSO

"FITS Tags" in Image::ExifTool::TagNames, Image::ExifTool(3pm)

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