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... The Post-Reduction Off-line Software (PROS) is a portable x-ray analysis software system designed to run under NOAO's Image Reduction and Analysis Facility (IRAF). The PROS system provides IRAF users with tasks that will properly access the x-ray data. ... Similarly many IRAF tasks will be useful for x-ray data. ... The IRAF system, previous to the development of the PROS software, provided many of the features needed to analyze generic astronomical data, optical data in particular. ...

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The current Java Class Library for access to FITS files was designed for the VLT Data Flow System pipeline subsystem. ... all types of headers are decoded, . ... As the code has not been optimized, data access is slow e.g. on a 160 MHz machine and no JIT, 32-bit real images are read at 50k values/sec, 16-bit integer images at 80k values/sec while table data are read at 10k values/sec. FITS keywords are decoded at a rate of 2-3k keywords/sec depending significantly on their types. ...

... AstroImageJ (AIJ) .. ... Reads and writes FITS images with standard headers . ... Provides a time and coordinate converter tool with capability to update/enhance FITS header content (AIRMASS, BJD, etc.) ... Creates color images and with native ImageJ processing power . ... AstroImageJ_Updater . Update operation now updates AIJ version number in Info.plist CFBundleVersion and CFBundleShortVersionString (MacOSX only) . ... AstroImageJ is ImageJ with astronomy plugins and macros installed. ...

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