Try to replace FITS I/O where possible
Just a general remark for future I/O changes: please let's stop using FITS (and maybe even replace the FITS format in places where we don't need to be interoperable with anything else). This format really is incredibly old and dusty. Anything with better metadata support should be fine, probably HDF5 (which we depend on anyway).
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