The Astr
Omatic software suite currently comprises the following packages, which may be installed together or independently:
- EyE: small image feature detector using machine learning
- MissFITS: FITS file management
- SCAMP: Astrometric calibration and photometric homogenisation
- SExtractor: Source extraction
- SkyMaker: Image simulation
- STIFF: automated image compositing and conversion
- Stuff: Catalogue simulation
- SWarp: Image regridding and co-addition
- WeightWatcher: weight-map/flag-map multiplexer and rasteriser
Note that other Astr
Omatic packages may be in development or even in use at various places, but not yet officially available. Please check out
this post for installation instructions.
Recent software releases:
Posted by
Emmanuel in
SWarp,
releases,
software on September 4, 2010 – 20:13
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SWarp 2.19.1 has been released! This version brings several new bugfixes and features: |
More details can be found in the ChangeLog.
Posted by
Emmanuel in
MissFITS,
releases on April 29, 2010 – 20:49
More details can be found in the ChangeLog.
Posted by
Emmanuel in
SCAMP,
releases on April 20, 2010 – 16:13
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SCAMP V1.7.0 has been released! This version adds the following features: |
- support for the GSC-2.3.2 and PPMX astrometric catalogues
- support for HTTP proxies in CDSclient queries (make sure you have the latest version of CDSclient installed, as well as wget),
- CFH12k and VIRCam .ahead focal plane models.
- critical bug fixed in the shear correction procedure of catalog matching (would compromise the matching of sources for wide field instruments in cases of strong differential refraction).
More details can be found in the ChangeLog.
Posted by
Emmanuel in
STIFF,
releases on February 10, 2010 – 15:21
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STIFF V2.1 has been released! This small update to STIFF 2.0 is now compatible with Mac OS X (thanks to E.Pietriga) and has a new COPY_HEADER option to include WCS information in the TIFF file. This makes it possible to load STIFF colour images converted to JPEG right into the Aladin sky atlas with full astrometric information (thanks to R.Barbá for the idea).
More details can be found in the ChangeLog. |
Posted by
Emmanuel in
STIFF,
releases on February 1, 2010 – 16:09
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STIFF V2.0 has been released! This version adds a wealth of new features: |
- complete rewriting of the conversion engine, now based on libTIFF 4.0
- BigTIFF support: manages arbitrary large images (64-bit system required),
- lossy or lossless on-the-fly image compression,
- 8 or 16-bit per component,
- New tiled multiresolution pyramidal TIFF output mode to create giant zoomable pictures for the web. Check out these examples streamed through the IIPImage server software,
- X,Y or XY image flipping options.
- 2-5× better performance than previous version on multi-core machines thanks to multithreaded conversion code and non-blocking calls to libTIFF. Sadly, the libTIFF library itself is not multithreaded,
- Built-in power-law, sRGB and ITU-R BT rec.709 gamma corrections,
- XML-VOTable metadata output, with user-friendly XSLT stylesheet provided.
More details can be found in the ChangeLog.
