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BEAST Miscellaneous Tools
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The following miscellaneous tools are useful for handling data formats and

.. _other_beast_tools:

Convert hdf5 to FITS
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Although the BEAST can read data in various formats, it may be of interest to
convert a photometric catalog from hdf5 to FITS format. Below, we show an example for
to use the BEAST tool convert_hdf5_to_fits to convert a catalog from hdf5 to FITS
and save it to disk:

.. code-block:: python

  >>> from beast.tools import convert_hdf5_to_fits #doctest: +SKIP
  >>>
  >>> # Specify the HDF5 file name
  >>> phot_file = 'my_awesome_catalog.hdf5' #doctest: +SKIP
  >>>
  >>> # Convert the HDF5 file to a FITS file (yay!) and save it to disk
  >>> convert_hdf5_to_fits.st_file(file_name = phot_file) #doctest: +SKIP