missfits not updating fits header

[astrogirl]

Hi,
I'm new to scamp and missfits. So any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.

I've recently learned scamp to get the astrometric solution for lris images. I can get scamp to work just fine and it produces a .head but when I run missfits the info in the .head file doesn't get put into the fits image

for example, if I'm run scamp on flred0238.fits and get flread0238.fits.head

I then do :

missfits flred0238.fits

I'm using the default default.missfits except that
SAVE_TYPE NEW
XML_NAME missfits.xml # Filename for XML output
XSL_URL file:///home/mschwamb/missfits/missfits-2.2.7/xsl

but it doesn't matter if I change these

The fits header in flred0238.miss.fits is the same as flred0238.fits and none of the ra, dec, cd matrix information in flread0238.fits.head are in flred0238.miss.fits

I don't get any errors while running missfits -
Here's the output

----- MissFITS 2.2.7 started on 2009-02-20 at 15:20:53 with 1 thread

flred0238.fits "TARGET1"

what am I doing wrong?

I've stuck the fits file, *.head file, and default.missfits if anyone is willing to take a look for me in http://web.gps.caltech.edu/~mschwamb/missfits/

Thanks very much,
~Meg

[Chiara Marmo]

Hello Meg,
just change the extension of your ascii header file from *.fits.head to *.head and it will work.

All the best,
Chiara