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.. _sunpy-how-to-fix-map-metadata:
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Fix incorrect metadata
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There will be times where you will come across a FITS files with either incorrect, missing or unparsable metadata and reading these files into `~sunpy.map.Map` will cause an error.
Therefore, to load these files into a `~sunpy.map.Map`, you will need to correct the metadata beforehand.
In the example below, the units in the FITS header, as controlled by the ``CUNIT1`` and ``CUNIT2`` keywords, are incorrect.
Before loading the file into a `~sunpy.map.Map`, we will correct these keywords to have the correct units.
.. code-block:: python
>>> from astropy.io import fits
>>> from sunpy.map import Map
>>> import sunpy.data.sample
>>> filepath = sunpy.data.sample.AIA_171_IMAGE # doctest: +REMOTE_DATA
>>> data, header = fits.getdata(filepath, header=True) # doctest: +REMOTE_DATA +IGNORE_WARNINGS
>>> # Note that it is case insensitive for the keys
>>> header['cunit1'] = 'arcsec' # doctest: +REMOTE_DATA
>>> header['cunit2'] = 'arcsec' # doctest: +REMOTE_DATA
>>> updated_map = Map(data, header) # doctest: +REMOTE_DATA +IGNORE_WARNINGS
This applies for any keyword in the `FITS standard <https://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_standard.html>`__.
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