SAOImage DS9: Astronomical Data Visualization Application
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 Sun Solaris, Sun Solaris64,
Linux, LinuxPPC, SGI, DEC Alpha, Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP, and
MacOSX (darwin). 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. DS9 also supports FTP and HTTP access.
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.
DS9 is a Tk/Tcl application which utilizes the SAOTk widget set. It
also incorporates the X Public
Access (XPA) mechanism to allow external processes to access and control
its data, GUI functions, and algorithms.
DS9 Binaries Version 3.0b9
This is a beta version which supports many new features
such as RGB images and FITS files larger than 2Gb.
Please see New Features and Known Issues for more information.
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DS9 Binaries Version 2.3b1
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XPA Binaries Version 2.1.5
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Documentation
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Source code
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Acknowledgment
If you have found SAOImage DS9 to be helpful in your research, the
following acknowledgment would be appreciated: "This research
has made use of SAOImage DS9, developed by Smithsonian Astrophysical
Observatory" or reference the following paper 2003adass..12..489J