SAOImageDS9 Version 1.5 Release Notes
Version 1.5
- Fixed problem with Windows style Open file dialog
box
- Now supports following coords systems:
-
- Image (was Logical)
- CCD (was Physical)
- Detector (was Mosaic Physical)
- Amplifier
- WCS
- New version of Doug Mink's WCS libs
- Fixed minor problems with interactive Pan Mode
- Added "Source TCL" file support
- Open Mosaic Image command
Will open multiple fits files as a mosaic.
Supports following patterns:
*#.fits
*_#.fits
*.IM*.fits
- Open Mosaic Segment command
- Fixed minor problem with zscale and high energy
data
- The Magnifier now Works!
There are two algorithms available (under Preferences)
Magnification can be selected via preferences
- Fast (and less Accurate)
- More Accurate (and slower)
- Improvements to Dialogs
- Now supports (unoffical)FITS data size -16 (unsigned
short)
- Support for byte swapped processors
- Support large images > 8k x 8k
- Loading images are now 10x faster
- Supports BLANK Fits keyword
- Menu Short Cuts have been added (use Alt key, such as
Alt-f for Frame menu)
- Horizontal and Verticle Graphs now work in all modes (not
just Crosshair)
- ds9 will accept fits files via STDIN (ie. $ cat foo.fits |
ds9 -file - )
- command line argument support (ie. $ds9 -? for
list)
- crosshair position is more accurate
- added new scales: 'ln' and 'log'.
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- ln -- SAOimage natural log based algorithm
- log-- IRAF log base 10 algorithm
- Support for Postscript printing (Level 1 and Level
2)
- Blinking is now supported