FITS data viewer
Version : 2.1
Author(s) : William Joye , Eric Mandel , Steve Murray , John Roll
License : GPL
Website : http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/ds9/
Installs from Open Source Astronomy for Linux cd 1
Disk space required for installation is 7.18 Mb
After the package is installed it can be accessed using the command
/opt/astro/bin/startds9
DS9 supports advanced features such as multiple frame buffers, mosaic images, tiling, blinking, geometric markers, colormap manipulation, scaling, arbitrary zoom, rotation, pan, and a variety of coordinate systems (including Image, Physical, Detector, and WCS). DS9 also supports FTP and HTTP access. The GUI for DS9 is user configurable.