FITS viewing software?

[White Rabbit]

Hi guys.

Can someone recommend a good FITS Veiwer. Something where I can view the whole folder as thumbnails to quickly ascertain viable files and and delete sub standard subs?

Thanks
Sandy

[White Rabbit]

Found this one which looks very good http://astroshed.com/software.html before I make the $75 plunge has anyone ever used it?

Thanks

[tlgerdes (Trevor)]

http://www.spacetelescope.org/projects/fits_liberator/

Free

[pluto (Hugh)]

I just chuck them all into DeepSkyStacker, adjust the display levels a bit and flick through them all. ( A tip I learned from Chris - "Screwdriverone")

[White Rabbit]

Thanks guys.

I have fits libarator already and thats what I use but I wanted something that would alow me to veiw an entire folder of fits files and see all the images as thumbnails like you can in windows with jpeg or tiff.

thanks

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Originally Posted by White Rabbit

Found this one which looks very good http://astroshed.com/software.html before I make the $75 plunge has anyone ever used it?

Thanks

I do, its very good, you view fits files in windows explorer automatically as thumbnails as with regular formats. Its always there in the background, nothing to "run"

[madbadgalaxyman (Robert)]

You can't go past SAOimage DS9, currently in Version 7.2

For quick image transformations to various scalings, and a quick "look see" at what is in the image, this is a very efficient tool, and it is free.

It does not use the "thumbnail" approach, but it is very fast at displaying files.
(I think of it as being sort of like IrfanView for fits files; so efficient that you can quickly view files and you almost don't need to use thumbnails)

It is often used by professional astronomers because of its ability to quickly display the image in very many different ways; the way it works and the tools it offers are very different from what you find in image processing software which is designed for image processing by amateurs, but it is a wonderful piece of software which is a polished and complete product.

It is essentially designed to work fluidly and very quickly with the fits format, rather than offering interconversions between file formats.

cheers
Robert

[Barrykgerdes]

Originally Posted by White Rabbit

Thanks guys.

I have fits libarator already and thats what I use but I wanted something that would alow me to veiw an entire folder of fits files and see all the images as thumbnails like you can in windows with jpeg or tiff.

thanks

If you have installed liberator set your "File types" in control panel to open fits, fts etc files with liberator. your thumbnails will then be generated
from this

Barry