SAOImage DS9

Astronomical Data Visualization Application

Science

Not tested on a device yet. What that means

SAOImage DS9 in Breadstick

Breadstick runs Debian's own saods9 package for ARM64, the build a Debian 13 computer with an ARM processor installs, so SAOImage DS9 should look and behave as it does on a Linux PC. On Samsung DeX, Floating mode opens it as its own window beside your Android apps, and Desktop mode runs it on a full Linux desktop.

Everything runs on the device's own processor, with no GPU compute, and instruments attached over USB are not visible to Linux apps. More about science apps in Breadstick.

About SAOImage DS9

From the project's description

SAOImage DS9 is an astronomical imaging and data visualization application. DS9 supports FITS images and binary tables, multiple frame buffers, region manipulation, and many scale algorithms and colormaps. It provides for easy communication with external analysis tasks and is highly configurable and extensible via XPA and SAMP.

All versions and platforms support a consistent set of GUI and functional capabilities.

DS9 supports advanced features such as 2-D, 3-D and RGB frame buffers, mosaic images, tiling, blinking, geometric markers, colormap manipulation, scaling, arbitrary zoom, cropping, rotation, pan, and a variety of coordinate systems.

The GUI for DS9 is user configurable. GUI elements such as the coordinate display, panner, magnifier, horizontal and vertical graphs, button bar, and color bar can be configured via menus or the command line.

From the project's AppStream metadata in Debian's saods9 package, under MIT.

Developer
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
Keywords
FITS
Menu categories
Astronomy, Education, Science

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