# Download an example FITS file, create a 2D cutout, and save it to a # new FITS file, including the updated cutout WCS. from astropy.io import fits from astropy.nddata import Cutout2D from astropy.utils.data import download_file from astropy.wcs import WCS def download_image_save_cutout(url, position, size): # Download the image filename = download_file(url) # Load the image and the WCS hdu = fits.open(filename)[0] wcs = WCS(hdu.header) # Make the cutout, including the WCS cutout = Cutout2D(hdu.data, position=position, size=size, wcs=wcs) # Put the cutout image in the FITS HDU hdu.data = cutout.data # Update the FITS header with the cutout WCS hdu.header.update(cutout.wcs.to_header()) # Write the cutout to a new FITS file cutout_filename = 'example_cutout.fits' hdu.writeto(cutout_filename, overwrite=True) if __name__ == '__main__': url = 'https://astropy.stsci.edu/data/photometry/spitzer_example_image.fits' position = (500, 300) size = (400, 400) download_image_save_cutout(url, position, size)