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From: vanhilst@june.cs.washington.edu (Michael VanHilst)
Subject: Re: Looking for Astronomical Viewer Source Code
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.181128.750@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Keywords: SAOimage, FITS
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Date: Fri, 7 Jun 91 18:11:28 GMT

Andy Register (4 June) writes:
> At the Naval Research Lab there was a program running on a Silicon Graphics
> Iris Workstation that allow the viewing of floating-point astronomical data.
> ...
> Does anyone know about this program?  Is it public domain?  If so is there an
> FTP site for it?  We would need the c code to compile on a sparc.

To which Linas Petras (5 June) responded:
>From my archives....
>> A very good viewer for FITS images is SAOimage (included with IRAF).
>> It runs under Unix/X Windows System and is available via anonFTP from
>> cfa250.harvard.edu in pub/SAOimage
>> I had no problems compiling and runing it under HP-UX 7.0.
> I have also got this running under X11 on SCO 3.2.2 using Thomas Roells
> X11R4 server. Runs great !!

Hang on guys.  A new update of SAOimage, with several bug fixes and
[finally] decent documentation is being prepared.  It should be available
in a couple weeks (app. June 20).

Mike VanHilst  vanhilst@cs.washington.edu  /  mvh@cfa.harvard.edu