SaveImage (Save File)

Save images to output files.

Plugin Type: Global

SaveImage is a global plugin. Only one instance can be opened.

Usage

This global plugin is used to save any changes made in Ginga back to output images. For example, a mosaic image that was created by the Mosaic plugin. Currently, only FITS images (single or multiple extensions) are supported.

Given the output directory (e.g., /mypath/outputs/), a suffix (e.g., ginga), an image channel (Image), and a selected image (e.g., image1.fits), the output file will be /mypath/outputs/image1_ginga_Image.fits. Inclusion of the channel name is optional and can be omitted using plugin configuration file, plugin_SaveImage.cfg. The modified extension(s) will have new header or data extracted from Ginga, while those not modified will remain untouched. Relevant change log entries from the ChangeHistory global plugin will be inserted into the history of its PRIMARY header.

Note

This plugin uses the module astropy.io.fits to write the output images, regardless of what is chosen for FITSpkg in the general.cfg configuration file.