Starlink Software Collection - Hikianalia Release Notes

General

New Applications

Changes to Applications

ATOOLS

* Added task ASTSPHMAP to create a SphMap. for transforming from three-dimensional Cartesian co-ordinates into a two-dimensional spherical co-ordinate system.

CONVERT

* Can process 64-bit integer data in ASCII2NDF, DA2NDF, FITS2NDF, NDF2ASCII, NDF2DA, NDF2FITS, NDF2UNF, and UNF2NDF.

GAIA

* A new toolbox for drawing STC-S regions has been added.

* It is now possible to add local colour and intensity maps to GAIA by adding files to the ~/.skycat/colormaps directory. These files need to be in the correct format, that is simple text files with either three columns (RGB for colour maps) or one column (intensity) whose values are in the range 0 to 1. Colour maps should use the file type ".lasc" and intensity maps ".iasc".

* A bug in the handling of the WCS from FITS files with size greater than 2Gb has been fixed. Previously GAIA could fail to show the world coordinates for such images.

* The UCAC4 catalogue has been added to the standard Skycat catalogues.

KAPPA

* New applications:

* Modified commands:

ORAC-DR

See http://www.oracdr.org/oracdr/ChangeLog

SCB

SCB is moving to obsolete and will not be installed by default.

SMURF

SPLAT

* The major change in this release is much improved support for more complex SSAP queries. For instance you can now create server groups for more targeted queries according to the waveband or data source (theory/archive/survey for instance), as well as using your specific tags to create such groups.

* It is now also possible to add additional metadata parameters to the queries for the currently selected server list.

* New SSAP servers not currently registered can now be added manually.

* Access control for servers that use HTTP passwords is now implemented.

* Bug fixes in this release include:

* The column name used to select spectral coordinates in tables without any other metadata has changed from "wavelength*" to "wave*".

* When changing the spectral coordinates column of a table in the main window the change wasn't seen immediately. This issue should now be fixed.

* A bug in the spectral synopsis that misidentified the celestial coordinate axes has been fixed. This means the "Spec position:" item should now be correct for DSB spectral frames with permuted axes.

Changes to Libraries

ARY

AST

HDS

KAPLIBS

NDF

NDG