---
name: "sbigtopgm"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "netpbm"
version: "10.86.51-2"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/sbigtopgm"
---

# sbigtopgm(1)

convert an SBIG CCDOPS file to PGM

## NAME

sbigtopgm - convert an SBIG CCDOPS file to PGM

## SYNOPSIS

**sbigtopgm**

\[*sbigfile*\]

## DESCRIPTION

This program is part of **Netpbm**(1) .

**sbigtopgm** reads an image file in the native format used by the Santa Barbara Instrument Group (SBIG) astronomical CCD cameras, and produces a PGM image as output.  Additional information on SBIG cameras and documentation of the file format is available at the Web site,  http://www.sbig.com/ ⟨http://www.sbig.com/⟩ .

**sbigtopgm** recognizes some variation on the documented SBIG Type 3 format.  It allows any capitalization in the header.  It ignores all whitespace in the header except newlines.  So a header line can end in newline, CRLF, or the bizarre LF-CR actually required by the spec.

## OPTIONS

There are no command line options defined specifically for **sbigtopgm**, but it recognizes the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (See \
  Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ .)

## SEE ALSO

[**pgmtosbig**(1)](/pgmtosbig/1.md) **pgm**(1)

## AUTHOR

John Walker ( **http://www.fourmilab.ch/** ⟨http://www.fourmilab.ch/⟩ ), January 1998.  This program is in the public domain.

## DOCUMENT SOURCE

This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source.  The master documentation is at

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  **http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/sbigtopgm.html**