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astPutTableHeader - Store new FITS headers in a FitsTable

Description:
This function stores new FITS headers in the supplied FitsTable. Any existing headers are first deleted.
Synopsis:
void astPutTableHeader( AstFitsTable $*$this, AstFitsChan $*$header )
Parameters:
this
Pointer to the FitsTable.
header
Pointer to a FitsChan holding the headers for the FitsTable. A deep copy of the supplied FitsChan is stored in the FitsTable, replacing the current FitsChan in the Fitstable. Keywords that are fixed either by the properties of the Table, or by the FITS standard, are removed from the copy (see "Notes:" below).
Notes:
  • The attributes of the supplied FitsChan, together with any source and sink functions associated with the FitsChan, are copied to the FitsTable.

  • Values for the following keywords are generated automatically by the FitsTable (any values for these keywords in the supplied FitsChan will be ignored): "XTENSION", "BITPIX", "NAXIS", "NAXIS1", "NAXIS2", "PCOUNT", "GCOUNT", "TFIELDS", "TFORM%d", "TTYPE%d", "TNULL%d", "THEAP", "TDIM%d".


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AST A Library for Handling World Coordinate Systems in Astronomy
Starlink User Note 211
R.F. Warren-Smith & D.S. Berry
24th May 2011
E-mail:ussc@star.rl.ac.uk

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