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Introduction

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QFitsView screenshot

QFitsView is a FITS file viewer. It can display one, two, and three-dimensional FITS files. It is written completely in C++ and uses the Qt widget library, which makes it available for all major platorms: Windows, MAC OS-X, and many Unix variants. Its main window consists of the following areas (you can click on the areas in the screenshot to navigate to the respective help pages):

QFitsView has three modes of operation, depending of what kind of data is being displayed. In case of one-dimensional data, the data are shown in an x-y plot. Two-dimensional images are shown in the main window. Three-dimensional data cubes can be displayed in a variety of ways, the third dimension is shown again as a x-y plot at the bottom of the image display.

For instructions how to obtain and install QFitsView, go to the installing page.