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SAOimage (pronounced S-A-0-image) displays astronomical images in the X11
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window environment. It was written by Mike Van Hilst while he was at the
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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) in 1990 and is now maintained by
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Doug Mink also at the SAO.
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1998-04-17 21:27:32 +00:00
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1999-05-02 21:21:34 +00:00
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Online help and documentation are on the webpage.
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Image files can be read directly, or image data may be passed through a
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named pipe (Unix) or a mailbox (VMS) from IRAF display tasks. SAOimage
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provides a large selection of options for zooming, panning, scaling,
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coloring, pixel readback, display blinking, and region specification. User
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interactions are generally performed with the mouse, but keyboard
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alternatives are often available.
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The SAOimage desktop includes, a main image display window, a button menu
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panel, a display magnifier, a pan and zoom reference image, and a color bar.
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A color table graph window can be brought up by clicking on the color bar.
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Bugs or problems should be reported to Doug Mink at dmink@cfa.harvard.edu.
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WWW: http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/saoimage.html
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