Perl interface to william pence's cfitsio subroutine library. for more information on cfitsio, see http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/fitsio.

this module attempts to provide a wrapper for nearly every cfitsio routine, while retaining as much cfitsio behavior as possible. as such, one should be aware that it is still somewhat low-level, in the sense that handing an array which is not the correct size to a routine like fits_write_img() may cause sigsegvs.

the goal is to eventually use these routines to build a more perl-like interface to many common tasks such as reading and writing of images and ascii and binary tables.