We should add support for fits.gz files. All Astropy FITS handling functions handle gzipped FITS files just as well as uncompressed ones. This would simply require a little tweaking to the filtering and suffix checking. I will try to add a PR soon to do this.
ryanhausen
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2 months ago
We should add support for fits.gz files. All Astropy FITS handling functions handle gzipped FITS files just as well as uncompressed ones. This would simply require a little tweaking to the filtering and suffix checking. I will try to add a PR soon to do this.