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Starlink Software Collection - Hikianalia Release Notes

General

64-bit integer data type supported.

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:

CONFIGECHO reports the value of a configuration parameter be it in a text file or the history of an NDF. While it is mostly intended for scripting it can also display the configuration-parameter differences between the two sources.
NDFECHO expands a given group expression into an explicit list of NDF names, and reports a specified subset thereof.

* Modified commands:

CHANMAP, COLLAPSE, and MSTATS have four new estimators, which produce the fraction/count of good/bad pixel values.
NORMALSIZE permits normalisation against a single row or column when comparing two-dimensional NDFs through a new boolean parameter called LOOP.
PARGET has a new boolean parameter called VECTOR, which defines the format used to present vector parameters.
ROTATE estimates north at the centre of the array not at the first corner.
WCSADD offers control of the transfer of set attributes from the basis Frame to the new Frame through a new boleean parameter called TRANSFER.
WCSREMOVE can remove Frames specified by name as well as by index.

ORAC-DR

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

SCB

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

SMURF

SPLAT

Changes to Libraries

ARY

AST

HDS

KAPLIBS

NDF

NDG

The structure used to hold Provenance information has been changed. It now occupies much less disk space and is much faster to read and write.

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	* 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.