A Microcomputer-Based Astronomical Image Display System
Abstract
A microcomputer-based digital image-display system is described. Its key features are 16-level false color representation, image-region magnification, and flexible-image file formats. The program is written in C, using off-the-shelf graphics drivers for an IBM PC XT/AT. The system provides a very inexpensive image-display system and has proven useful for image analysis when used in conjunction with programs such as DAOPHOT running on VAX computers.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Pub Date:
- September 1988
- DOI:
- 10.1086/132282
- Bibcode:
- 1988PASP..100.1152F
- Keywords:
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- Astronomical Photography;
- Computer Graphics;
- Digital Data;
- Display Devices;
- Ibm Computers;
- Personal Computers;
- Vax Computers;
- COMPUTER SYSTEMS;
- INSTRUMENTS