Picko is an utility to convert of Christian Buil PIC images to the astronomical FITS image format.
This format has been introduced by Christian Buil's PIC to his own cameras.
I've no physical access to the camera or an archive, so picko is not now activelly maintained (and I don't plan it). However, one can be freely use and also anybody can send patches to add any improvements.
Source code is freely available under GPL2 license.
A recommended way of building is:
$ tar zxf picko-X.Y.Z.tar.gz $ cd picko/ $ gcc -O2 -o picko iofts.c iopic.c trajd.c picko.c
The binary along with manual page are available
in current directory. It is reccomended copy its
under /usr/local tree.
Picko runs under any Unix-like operating system (all flavours of GNU/Linux and BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, etc) and under DOS/Windows.
Fitspng is a converter from FITS to PNG. Munipack is a general utility to work with FITS images.
Development notes can be found in Hroch's diary.
Picko is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License. This gives you the freedom to use and modify Picko to suit your needs.
Copyright © 2007 - 2012, F. Hroch, Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.