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Subject: Re: FITS image display software for PC
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In article <60tmab$59q@pecos.msfc.nasa.gov>, amiceli@hep.uchicago.edu (Antonino Miceli) writes...
>HI!
> 
>I am looking for a FITS image diplay software
>package for a PC that is free. We have been using
>SAOimage on UNIX, but we like something like 
>it for our PC. 

The NRAO FITSview package has a version that runs on Windows 3.1 and 
Windows 95.

The netPBM package runs on MS-DOS.

IMDISP runs on IBM PC computers.

Discussion of these and other packages, with links, can be found on 
the FITS Support Office software and sample data Web page, at

http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/astro/fits/software.html

				Barry Schlesinger
                                FITS Support Office
				GSFC/ADF

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From: dwells@nrao.edu (Don Wells)
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"AM" == Antonino Miceli <amiceli@hep.uchicago.edu> writes:
AM> I am looking for a FITS image diplay software
AM> package for a PC that is free. ..

See:

    http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/os-support/ms-windows/fitsview/
    http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/os-support/mac-os/macfitsview/

The same program is also available for various Unix environments:

    http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/os-support/unix/xfitsview/
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