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From: William Joye <wjoye@cfa.harvard.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 16:52:10 -0400
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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 via XPA and SAMP.
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