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- From: newberry@newton.as.arizona.edu (Mike Newberry)
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- Subject: Re: I am looking for a public software package called SAOimage ?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.201933.10004@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 20:19:33 GMT
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- SAOimage is an image display program that runs under IRAF (Image Reduction
- and Analysis Facility) which is produced by NOAO (National Optical Astronomy
- Observatories) here in Tucson (950 N. Cherry Street, Tucson, 85726, 602-
- 327-5511). SAOimage was originally written at the Smithsonian Astrophysical
- Observatory in Boston (60 Garden St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-459-????).
- It displays images and allows real time pan of a zoomed portion of the
- display, real time contrast/brightness, and palette changes, as well as a
- few other display manipulations. SAOimage, inside IRAF, runs on Sparcstations,
- and probably also Vaxes and such, as it is an X application. If you want
- similar or better levels of performance on fast 386 and 486 systems, you
- might investigate MIRA (Microcomputer Image Reduction and Analysis)
- available from Axiom Research, Inc., Box 44162, Tucson, AZ 85733, 602-791-
- 2864. MIRA was written for astronomical image processing but very little
- of it is astronomy-specific. It supports byte, integer, and real type
- images for display, analysis, arithmetic, data reduction, convolutions, etc.,
- and is VERY fast on relatively modest hardware. Uses ET-4000 based
- superVGA cards, 2--4 MB memory, DOS 5.0, and a 3 button mouse.
-
- Mike Newberry
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