Image::...ol::FITS(3)

💖 NAME 💖

Image::ExifTool::FITS — okay so bestie, this one reads Flexible Image Transport System metadata. That's the whole job. It reads FITS metadata. Slay. ✨

This page lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, and yeah the title up top renders all squished like Image::...ol::FITS(3) because manual pages love to truncate things for no reason 🙈 — but the actual module is Image::ExifTool::FITS.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

This module is used by Image::ExifTool

That's it. That's the whole synopsis. She's not a module you call yourself, she's a supporting character. You don't text her directly, you text Image::ExifTool and she shows up. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This module is holding all the definitions that Image::ExifTool needs to read meta information out of FITS images — aka Flexible Image Transport System images. Think of her as the little dictionary of tag definitions sitting behind the curtain. Not the main character, but without her the main character literally cannot function. 🫶

No cap: it's definitions. It's not doing the parsing gymnastics herself, she's just supplying the vocabulary. 👑

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright 2003-2026, Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at gmail.com) — shoutout to the legend, that's a long run. ⭐

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. So like, go off, remix it, it's giving open source generosity. 🎀

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🌈 REFERENCES 🌈

• https://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_standard.html — the FITS standard itself, if you wanna read the source material. iykyk. 📚

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• "FITS Tags" in Image::ExifTool::TagNames — the actual tag list, go look at the receipts 💀
• Image::ExifTool(3pm) — the parent module, the one that actually calls her up ✨

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Not me ending this with the technicalities but: this page ships with perl v5.42.1 and is dated 2026-03-31. Periodt. 💖🧚🌸