From owner-fitsbits at kochab.cv.nrao.edu Sat Jun 5 16:59:21 1999 Received: (from majordom at localhost) by kochab.cv.nrao.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/CV-SOL-3.0) id QAA09963 for fitsbits-spinner; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 16:59:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from fits.cv.nrao.edu (IDENT:dwells at fits.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.8]) by kochab.cv.nrao.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/CV-SOL-3.0) with ESMTP id QAA09958 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 16:59:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from dwells at localhost) by fits.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8/CV-2.2) id QAA08933 for fitsbits at majordomo.cv.nrao.edu; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 16:59:03 -0400 Received: from fits.cv.nrao.edu (IDENT:root at fits.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.8]) by kochab.cv.nrao.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/CV-SOL-3.0) with ESMTP id RAA05853 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 17:30:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from newsfeed.cv.nrao.edu (newsfeed.cv.nrao.edu [192.33.115.17]) by fits.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8/CV-2.2) with ESMTP id RAA07046 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 17:30:26 -0400 Received: (from news at localhost) by newsfeed.cv.nrao.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8/CV-2.2) id RAA18079; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 17:30:25 -0400 To: fitsbits at fits.cv.nrao.edu Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 17:29:21 -0400 From: Doug Mink Message-ID: <37584531.751EB96E at cfa.harvard.edu> Organization: Harvard University Path: newsfeed.cv.nrao.edu!newsgate.duke.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.harvard.edu!cfanews.harvard.edu!131.142.24.153 Subject: SAOimage 1.26 and WCSTools 2.6 released Newsgroups: sci.astro.fits Sender: owner-fitsbits at kochab.cv.nrao.edu Precedence: bulk The latest release of the SAOimage astronomical image display program is now available. Version 1.26 implements incremental changes and minor bug fixes. Documentation and access information is at http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/saoimage/ WCSTools 1.26 is a suite of tools which manipulate astronomical catalogs and utilize the world coordinate information in FITS and IRAF image headers. Support for the ACT catalog and catalog searches from files of centers have been added, among other things. It is hoped that the next release will support the final FITS WCS standard. Documentation and access information is at http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/wcstools -Doug Mink Telescope Data Center Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, Massachusetts USA