freebsd-ports/astro/saoimage/pkg-descr
Matthew Hunt 90dca13aaa Import of saoimage, a viewer for FITS files (which are used in
professional astronomy).
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Submitted by:	giffunip@asme.org
1998-04-17 21:27:32 +00:00

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SAOimage (pronounced S-A-0-image) displays astronomical images in the X11
window environment. It was written by Mike Van Hilst while he was at the
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) in 1990 and is now maintained by
Doug Mink also at the SAO. Online documentation is available at
http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/saoimage.html
Online help is available at
http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/saoimage.html.
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, but keyboard
alternatives are often available.
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.
Bugs or problems should be reported to Doug Mink at dmink@cfa.harvard.edu.