F Changes

 F.1 Release 2.0
 F.2 Release 2.0-2
 F.3 Release 2.1
 F.4 Release 2.2
 F.5 Release 2.2-1
 F.6 Release 2.3-0
 F.7 Release 2.3-1
 F.8 Release 2.4-0
 F.9 Release 3.0-0
 F.10 Release 3.0-1
 F.11 Release 3.1-0
 F.12 Release 3.1-1
 F.13 Release 4.0-10
 F.14 Release 4.0-11
 F.15 Release 4.0-12
 F.16 Release 4.0-14
 F.17 Release 4.0-15
 F.18 Release 4.0-16
 F.19 Release 4.0-17
 F.20 Release 4.0-18
 F.21 Release 4.0-19
 F.22 Release 4.0-20

F.1 Release 2.0

CCDPACK has changed a great deal in this release, the more important features are listed here:

There have also been many low-level changes to the package, any bugs reported during 1994/1995 should be fixed.

F.2 Release 2.0-2

CCDPACK has been updated to fix several outstanding problems.

F.3 Release 2.1

CCDPACK is now available under Linux. Four bug fixes and a minor feature change have also been made:

F.4 Release 2.2

In this release CCDPACK can now access foreign data files. This makes it possible to wildcard lists of IRAF and FITS files, i.e.:

  makemos in=*.fit out=mosaic.imh

CCDPACK can now also be used from the IRAF/CL command interpreter.

More minor changes include:

F.5 Release 2.2-1

The applications FINDOFF and REGISTER have been modified to open up to 100 input and 100 output files. Previously these programs where limited to 40 files in total.

The propagation of QUALITY in the MAKEBIAS, MAKECAL, MAKEFLAT and MAKEMOS applications has been suppressed. A bug in TRANNDF when propagating QUALITY has been corrected.

F.6 Release 2.3-0

A minor update to CCDPACK.

F.7 Release 2.3-1

A minor update to CCDPACK.

F.8 Release 2.4-0

This is a minor update to CCDPACK. It corrects several bugs and introduces a small amount of new functionality.

F.9 Release 3.0-0

This is a major update to CCDPACK.

F.10 Release 3.0-1

Release 3.0-1 makes a few non-user-visible code modifications and minor documentation bugfixes to the beta test release 3.0-0b. The WRITESZ parameter of MAKEMOS is also withdrawn and the defaults of the CORRECT parameters in MAKEMOS and DRIZZLE correspondingly modified.

F.11 Release 3.1-0

This is a minor update of CCDPACK, and incorporates the following changes:

F.12 Release 3.1-1

This is a bugfix update of CCDPACK, and incorporates the following change:

F.13 Release 4.0-10

This is a major update of CCDPACK; major new facilities have been added in these areas:

CCDPACK Sets (mosaic cameras):

CCDPACK now offers the concept of a Set of image files, which will typically be a group of frames taken from the different CCDs on the same mosaic camera during the same observation. This makes the data reduction and registration much more straightforward when processing this type of data. Two new applications have been added for explicit handling of Set header information:

The existing CCDPACK applications have been modified to be aware of this Set information, but will behave as previously on data which has not had Set headers explicitly added. A new test script has been added to show off the new capabilities:

Interactive registration programs:

The following programs have been completely rewritten:

They now feature a much more intuitive, powerful and easy to use graphical interface than in their previous incarnations. They will also work on all X displays, rather than requiring a PseudoColor visual as previously. Although these programs offer basically the same facilities as they did in previous versions of CCDPACK, parameter usage has in some cases changed considerably.

New display application:

The following new program has been added for viewing images and their alignment:

It will plot the outline, or the pixels, or both of one or more images on a display device. This makes it quick and easy to preview the positioning of images in their Current coordinate system, and to see how they are aligned with each other, for instance prior to resampling and generating a mosaic.

Other items:

The following minor changes have also been made since v3.1-1.

F.14 Release 4.0-11

FINDOFF bug:

A bug which caused problems with OVERRIDE=TRUE in FINDOFF has been fixed. This is only likely to have caused problems to ORAC-DR users.

F.15 Release 4.0-12

REGISTER FITTYPE=6 bug:

A long-standing bug which prevented REGISTER from working with FITTYPE=6 has been fixed.

F.16 Release 4.0-14

TRANNDF modification:

In TRANNDF a copy of the pre-transformation PIXEL coordinate system will be preserved, under the name CCD_OLDPIXEL, in the World Coordinate System component of the transformed image.
Bugfixes

F.17 Release 4.0-15

Bugfixes

F.18 Release 4.0-16

Bugfixes

F.19 Release 4.0-17

Limit changes

F.20 Release 4.0-18

Limit changes

F.21 Release 4.0-19

DRIZZLE

F.22 Release 4.0-20

The Tcl/Tk/Itcl core that CCDPACK uses has been updated. Extensive minor changes to the XREDUCE application.