aips

Radio Astronomy data processing package

Version : 31DEC05
Author(s) : NRAO (aipsmail@nrao.edu)
License : GPL
Website : http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/aips/

Installs from Open Source Astronomy for Linux cd 5
Disk space required for installation is 458.70 Mb

After the package is installed it can be accessed using the command


		/opt/astro/bin/startaips

Summary

The Astronomical Image Processing System is a software package for calibration, data analysis, image display, plotting, and a variety of ancillary tasks on Astronomical Data. It comes from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. It is primarily for Radio Astronomy. There is a Usenet newsgroup alt.sci.astro.aips that deals with AIPS issues and has occasional interesting announcements. There is a FAQ (answers to Frequently Asked Questions) for this newsgroup too.