Starlink Software Collection - Nanahope Release Notes

These are notes for the pre-release of Nanahope. As modifications are made to the development tree the changes are listed here. During the release the release branch will be created and this document will be released.

Release Check List

[to be removed when the release is complete]

Highlighted Changes

Software Deprecations

New Applications

Changes to Applications

ATOOLS

CCDPACK

CONVERT

CUPID

CURSA

FINDCOORDS

KAPPA

Figaro

GAIA

The most significant changes in this release are the introduction of facilities for querying the Virtual Observatory for images and catalogues. These new query toolboxes are located in the Data-Analysis menu.

Other significant changes are the introduction of support for the visualisation of 2D and 3D clumps detected by the CUPID package, support for the VOTable catalogue format and various special other catalogue types created by the SMURF and KAPPA packages.

Catalogues with suitable descriptions (like those from SMURF and KAPPA) will now have their coordinate systems matched to that of the displayed image. For instance this means you can now query for catalogue positions in J2000 and plot over an image set to B1950 and vice versa.

Finally the GAIA has been updated to use the new SAMP protocol for interoperating with other desktop applications (TOPCAT, SPLAT etc). This replaces PLASTIC support, which has been removed.

SMURF

SPLAT

STAR2HTML

Changes to Libraries

AGI

AST

ATL

CAT

EMS

GRP

HDS

KAPLIBS

MERS

NDF

NDG

NDF

PAR

PCS

Changes to thirdparty software