[fitsbits] SAOImage DS9 release 6.1

[William Joye]

SAOImage DS9: Astronomical Image Display
Public Release 6.1
17 May 2010

Summary
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We are pleased to announce the availability of the new public release of SAOImage DS9 6.1.  More information about this package (including  download links) is available at our web site: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/ds9

DS9 Description
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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.

New features in this release
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For a list of important enhancements and support for new features, please see: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/ds9/new.html