def newBLOB(self, bp):
        self.logger.info("new BLOB " + bp.name)
        print("name: ", bp.name," size: ", bp.size," format: ", bp.format)
        # get image data
        fits=bp.getblobdata()
        print(type(fits))
        # write image data to BytesIO buffer
        blobfile = io.BytesIO(fits)
        # open a file and save buffer to disk
        with open("%s.fits" % datetime.now(), "wb") as f:
            f.write(blobfile.getvalue())
        blobfile.close()