Viewing DSS Fits Files

[Andrew John Walker]

Peter Teuben <teuben at astro.umd.edu> writes:

>Tom McGlynn wrote:
>> 
>> FITSview did seem to be a very nice and powerful tool
>> for displaying FITS image data and I anticipate that I will
>> be using it now that I've downloaded it onto my PC.

>I must have been doing something very basic wrong. I found FITSview
>a bit annoying (on unix, never tried the win* versions):
>It's most basic operation, changing the colortable interactively, was done in
>another widget using sliders or so. I tried moving the mouse
>in the window, with and without pressing down a variety of
>keyboard buttons, and nothing appeared to change contrast/colors etc.
>Perhaps I'm too spoiled by that and the client-server nature of saoimage
>and SAOtng. Are there functional differences between the unix
>and win* versions of FITSview. I noted that month after month it
>is the top download from the NRAO ftp archive. I must be missing
>something (apart from the blue screen of death of course)

>Btw, saoimage is also pretty nice with DSS images. Displaying full
>WCS info etc.

	The last time I used Fitsview you had to reload the image for
the minimum and maximum pixel range to work. However brightness and contrast
should work immediately.
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