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Revision as of 04:21, 30 January 2013
AstroImageJ is an image analysis tool for astronomy. The homepage with download links is
with a support forum at nabble.com
Feature Overview
- General purpose, but optimized for time series aperture photometry
- Open source and written in Java, so runs under Windows, OS X, and Linux
- Real-time or post-processed calibration, analysis, and plotting
- DS9-like image display with WCS support and live photometry
- FITS header handling, viewing, editing
- Multi-image processing (bias, dark, flat, CCD non-linearity correction)
- Multi-exposure, multi-aperture differential photometry
- Interactive multi-curve plotting
- Astronomical coordinate conversion (J2000, EoD, equatorial, ecliptic, galactic)
- Astronomical time conversion (UTC, local, LST, JD, HJD, BJDTBD)
Introduction
AstroImageJ (AIJ) is simply generic ImageJ (IJ) with customizations to the base code and a packaged set of astronomy specific plugins. AIJ and IJ are public domain Java image processing programs inspired by NIH Image for the Macintosh. IJ was developed by Wayne Rasband at the National Institutes of Health. The plugins are based on the Astronomy Plugins package written by Frederic V. Hessman et al. of Inst. f. Astrophysik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. The AstroImageJ customizations are by Karen Collins (karen.collins at insightbb.com) and John Kielkopf of the University of Louisville. The application is open source, and the source code is embedded within the ij.jar file and the Astronomy_.jar file. To report bugs or suggest new features, please email Karen Collins at the address indicated above.