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SAOimage: A utility for displaying astronomical images in the X11 window environment
Michael VanHilst
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Douglas J. Mink
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Abstract:
SAOimage (pronounced S-A-0-image) is a utility for displaying astronomical images in the X11 window environment. It was written at
the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory by Mike Van Hilst in 1990 and is now maintained by Doug Mink. Image files can be read
directly, or image data may be passed through a named pipe (Unix) or a mailbox (VMS) from
IRAF display tasks. SAOimage provides a
large selection of options for zooming, panning, scaling, coloring, pixel readback, display blinking, and region specification. User
interactions are generally performed with the mouse. Mouse tracking in an image's world coordinate system, usually sky coordinates, was
added in 1994.
The SAOimage desktop includes, a main image display window, a button menu panel, a display magnifier, a pan and zoom reference
image, and a color bar. A color table graph window can be brought up by clicking on the color bar.
Subject headings: methods: data analysis, techniques: photometric,
ultraviolet: general
Latest version: 1.27.2 (2000 March 28)
Archived: 2000 March 29
Papers: multiple, representitive:
Canzian, B., Allen, R. J., 1997ApJ...479..723C
Language: C
External Explanatory Pages:
http://cfa165.harvard.edu/software/saoimage.html
Source Code:
SAOimage-1.27.2.tar.gz