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diff --git a/academic/ds9/README b/academic/ds9/README index 5bffb53e7f..3569e0678c 100644 --- a/academic/ds9/README +++ b/academic/ds9/README @@ -1,7 +1,13 @@ -SAOImage DS9 is an application for astronomical imaging and data -visualization. It supports the FITS format and binary tables. As well -as standard imaging manipulation tools, it includes many advanced -features such as multiple frame buffers, 2D, 3D, RGB frame buffers, -region and colormap manipulation, mosaic images and geometric markers. -DS9 supports a variety of coordinate systems and it has a user -configurable interface. +SAOImageDS9 is an astronomical imaging and data visualization +application. DS9 supports FITS images and binary tables, multiple +frame buffers, region manipulation, and many scale algorithms and +colormaps. All versions and platforms support a consistent set of GUI +and functional capabilities. DS9 supports advanced features such as +2-D, 3-D and RGB frame buffers, mosaic images, tiling, blinking, +geometric markers, colormap manipulation, scaling, arbitrary zoom, +cropping, rotation, pan, and a variety of coordinate systems. +Furthermore, the application is stand-alone and requires no +installation or support files. The GUI for DS9 is user configurable. +GUI elements such as the coordinate display, panner, magnifier, +horizontal and vertical graphs, button bar, and color bar can be +configured via menus or the command line. |