Abstract
Introducing Showfits: A Web-Based Image Manipulation and Analysis Tool
Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol.33, pp.810-810
May 2001
Abstract
Developed at Yale for use in undergraduate astronomy courses, Showfits is the premier web-based image analysis tool. Showfits provides all the functionality necessary for undergraduate level (and often research level) image manipulation, including image convolutions, rotations, aperture photometry, centroid calculation, flat-fielding, dark subtracts, and stacking. Moreover, the Graphical User Interface is platform independent and highly intuitive. Most of the calculations are transparent to the user, making the program useful pedagogically. Finally, as a web-based tool, it is a convenient way to make images taken on a local telescope easily viewable to the outside public.
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- Title
- Introducing Showfits: A Web-Based Image Manipulation and Analysis Tool
- Creators
- David M Goldberg - Drexel University, Physics
- Publication Details
- Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol.33, pp.810-810
- Conference
- 198th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (Pasadena, California, United States, 03 Jun 2001 - 07 Jun 2001)
- Publisher
- American Astronomical Society
- Number of pages
- 1
- Resource Type
- Abstract
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Physics
- Identifiers
- 991021906511004721