How to Install stiff in Ubuntu 18.04



Install stiff by entering the following commands in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install stiff

Description:

convert scientific FITS images to the TIFF format

STIFF is a program that converts scientific FITS images to the TIFF format for illustration purposes. The main features of STIFF are: . * Accurate reproduction of the original surface brightnesses and colours * Automatic or manual contrast and brightness adjustments * Automatic sky background intensity and colour balance * Adjustable colour saturation * Colour-friendly gamma correction capabilities * One or three input channels: gray-scale or true colour output * Output with 8 or 16 bits per component * Pixel rebinning and x/y flip options * Support for arbitrarily large input and output images on standard hardware (BigTIFF support) * Support for tiled, multiresolution pyramids * Support for lossless and lossy compression methods * Multi-threaded code with load-balancing to take advantage of multiple cores and processors. * XML VOTable-compliant output of meta-data.

Homepage: http://www.astromatic.net/software/stiff

Version: 2.4.0-2build1

Section: universe/science