From hack at stsci.edu Mon Nov 7 10:09:54 2005 From: hack at stsci.edu (Warren J. Hack) Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:09:54 -0500 Subject: [AstroPy] TABLES/STSDAS v3.4 and STScI_PYTHON v2.2 now available Message-ID: <436F6E42.1080303@stsci.edu> ******************************************************* TABLES/STSDAS v3.4 and STSCI_PYTHON v2.2 NOW AVAILABLE ******************************************************* The Astronomy Tools and Applications Branch of the Space Telescope Science Institute wishes to announce the availability of version 3.4 of the Space Telescope Science Data Analysis Software (STSDAS). Concurrent with the STSDAS release, we have also released v3.4 of the TABLES external package. Both of these packages are layered upon IRAF as external packages; it is therefore necessary to obtain and install IRAF (from http://iraf.noao.edu) before installing TABLES and STSDAS. STSDAS is linked against libraries in TABLES, so TABLES must be installed before STSDAS. STSDAS includes some Python-based tasks; running these requires the STScI Python Libraries to be installed (all the non-Python tasks can be used in the traditional way and do not require Python or the STScI Python libraries). These tasks can only be run from PyRAF using standard IRAF CL task syntax, or within Python scripts using Python syntax. The Astronomy Tools and Applications Branch of STScI also wishes to announce the availability of version 2.2 of STSCI_PYTHON. This release includes updated versions of Multidrizzle and CALSTIS as used by the HST ACS pipeline, along with new versions of aXe, numarray, PyFITS and PyRAF. A new task, saaclean, was also added for NICMOS data reduction. Use of the Python tasks requires upgrading to this version of STSCI_PYTHON. WHERE TO OBTAIN THIS SOFTWARE STSDAS/TABLES v3.4 can be downloaded from the STSDAS web site http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/stsdas/download Installation instructions are available on the web site. Precompiled binaries also exist for some of the ports supported by NOAO, including Sun Solaris, RedHat Linux and Mac OS X. STSCI_PYTHON v 2.2 be downloaded from the PyRAF web site http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/pyraf/stsci_python/ current/download Installation instructions are available from the PyRAF web site. Please contact us through e-mail (help at stsci.edu), by telephone at (410) 338-1082. From rowen at u.washington.edu Mon Nov 7 12:41:03 2005 From: rowen at u.washington.edu (Russell E Owen) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 09:41:03 -0800 Subject: [AstroPy] New versions of PyGuide and RO packages Message-ID: New versions of RO package and PyGuide are available from: What they are: RO python package is a set of utility modules for astronomical coordinate conversion, displaying images in DS9, enhanced Tkinter widgets and TCP/IP communication. It runs on unix, Mac and Windows. PyGuide is a set of algorithms to find, centroid and fit star profiles. It is well suited to centroiding images with pieces missing, e.g. from slitviewers and coherent fiber bundles. It is used by the Apache Point Observatory 3.5m telescope. Enhancements: RO package has a greatly improved DS9 module: it is better at finding xpa and ds9 and allows simpler installation of those programs on Windows and MacOS X. Also, DS9Win.showArray can now handle byteswapped data. See the version history for more information and earlier enhancements: . PyGuide now works natively in 32 bit floating point, rather than unsigned 16 bit, so it is easier to use with calibrated data. This version is not yet as well tested as the previous version. -- Russell From mkuemmel at eso.org Wed Nov 30 11:26:33 2005 From: mkuemmel at eso.org (Martin Kuemmel) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:26:33 +0100 Subject: [AstroPy] Release of the Python module AstroAsciiData In-Reply-To: <424B08B1.2070601@stsci.edu> References: <20050330195417.664463EB5A@www.scipy.com> <424B08B1.2070601@stsci.edu> Message-ID: <200511301626.jAUGQYP04452@serapis.hq.eso.org> Dear all, this email is the announcement of the first release of the Python module AstroAsciiData. With this module it is possible to: * read ASCII tables; * access its elements for reading and writing; * save the ASCII table back to a file; * delete/add rows and columns. More information, and of course the software itself and the manual, is available on the project webpages at: http://www.stecf.org/software/astroasciidata/ The software was developed as a contribution to the AstroLib project. Any kind of feedback can be posted on the AstroAsciiData wiki at http://www.scipy.org/wikis/topical_software/AstroAsciiData or sent by email to AstroAsciiData at stecf.org Please check on the webpage if the module could be useful for your work and give it a try! Cheers, Martin Kuemmel Jonas Haase