NAME

Image::DS9 - interface to the DS9 image display and analysis program

VERSION

version v1.0.0

SYNOPSIS

use Image::DS9;

$dsp = new Image::DS9;
$dsp = new Image::DS9( \%attrs );

DESCRIPTION

This class provides access to the DS9 image display and analysis program through its XPA access points.

DS9 is a rather flexible and feature-rich image display program. Rather than extol its virtues, please consult the website in "REQUIREMENTS".

While one could communicate with DS9 solely via the IPC::XPA class, this class provides a cleaner, less error prone interface, as it checks the passed commands and arguments for syntax and data type. It also cleans up returned data from DS9.

To use this class, first construct a Image::DS9 object, and then apply its methods. It is possible to both address more than one DS9 with a single object, as well as having multiple Image::DS9 objects communicate with their own DS9 invocations. Eventually there will be documentation spelling out how to do this.

DOCUMENTATION

Please see:

Image::DS9::Manual::Connect

How to create the connection to DS9

Image::DS9::Manual::Interface

Understanding how arguments are passed to DS9 and what is returned.

Image::DS9::Manual::API

A reference manual to the methods which map onto DS9's commands.

Image::DS9::Constants

Constants provided for your ease and protection.

Image::DS9::Manual::Install

Installation and testing hints. Please read this before installation.

SUPPORT

Bugs

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-image-ds9@rt.cpan.org or through the web interface at: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Image-DS9

Source

Source is available at

https://gitlab.com/djerius/image-ds9

and may be cloned from

https://gitlab.com/djerius/image-ds9.git

AUTHOR

Diab Jerius <djerius@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2017 by Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

This is free software, licensed under:

The GNU General Public License, Version 3, June 2007