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Old April 15th 09, 04:48 PM posted to sci.astro.fits
William Joye
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Default [fitsbits] SAOImage DS9 release 5.6

SAOImage DS9: Astronomical Image Display
Public Release 5.6
15 Apr 2009

Summary
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We are pleased to announce the availability of the new public release
of SAOImage DS9 5.6. More information about this package (including
download links) is available at our web site:

http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/ds9/

DS9 Description
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SAOImage DS9 is an astronomical imaging and data visualization
application. DS9 supports FITS images and binary tables, multiple
frame buffers, region manipulation, and many scale algorithms and
colormaps. It provides for easy communication with external analysis
tasks and is highly configurable and extensible.

DS9 is a stand-alone application. It requires no installation or
support files. Versions of DS9 currently exist for Solaris, Linux,
Windows, and MacOSX . All versions and platforms support a consistent
set of GUI and functional capabilities.

DS9 supports advanced features such as multiple frame buffers, mosaic
images, tiling, blinking, geometric markers, colormap manipulation,
scaling, arbitrary zoom, rotation, pan, and a variety of coordinate
systems.

The GUI for DS9 is user configurable. GUI elements such as the
coordinate display, panner, magnifier, horizontal and vertical graphs,
button bar, and colorbar can be configured via menus or the command
line.

New features in this release
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X11 MacOSX 10.5

Support for X11 MacOSX 10.5 Leopard has been reduced to only one
version which can be used with or without the Leopard firewall
enabled. Please note: this version consist of 2 files, ds9 and
ds9.zip. It is very important that ds9.zip be placed in the same
directory as the ds9 binary at all times.

VOTable Catalogs

The Catalog tool can now load and save catalogs in VOTable format.

SAMP

DS9 now supports SAMP (Simple Application Messaging Protocol). FITS
images and Catalogs may be exchanged with other application who
support SAMP such as TOPCAT and ALADIN.

This work was performed with support from the Chandra X-ray Science
Center and the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Center. For
more information, please visit our web site at:

http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/ds9/

William Joye

 




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