SAOtng Hot Topics

Did you know that ...

• you can load FITS files from the Web?
• you can load FITS binary tables?
• you can load compressed FITS files?

• you can avoid colormap flash
• you can change the frame size to match a newly loaded image
• you can automatically orient images so that "north is up"

• your Fortran or C program can communicate with SAOtng
• your program can retrieve RA/Dec positions from SAOtng

Topics from version 1.5 ...

• you can add new accelerator buttons to SAOtng
• you can add new analysis routines to SAOtng
• you can add new marker analysis routines to SAOtng
• you can add new color maps to SAOtng
• you can add new image file formats to SAOtng
• you can minimize the memory used by SAOtng
• you can control SAOtng from the command line

Last Updated April 1, 1998