ATV.PRO

An interactive display tool for astronomical images written in IDL.

ATV is a program for display and analysis of astronomical images using the IDL image-processing language.  It allows interactive control of the image scaling, color table, color stretch, and zoom, with support for world coordinate systems.   It also does point-and-click aperture photometry, simple spectral extractions, and can produce publication-quality postscript output images.  

About ATV
Instructions for using ATV
Modification history
Credits

To run ATV, you will need:

ATV can also be used without an IDL license, using the IDL Virtual Machine.   Here's what you need:

Note about other versions of ATV:    There are a few alternate versions of ATV that can be found on other sites, some of them modified to add features specific to certain telescopes or instruments.  These include a version designed for reduction of Spitzer IRS data (as part of the SMART package), and a very old version of ATV with added HEALPIX support that's distributed as part of the "idlutils" package.    However: I take no responsibility for any "forked" versions of ATV, and the instructions and information on this site may not apply to any modified ATV versions that you find elsewhere.   If you're using the idlutils distribution but don't need to use the HEALPIX support, then I recommend that you delete the ATV version that came with idlutils, and install the current version of ATV instead.


If you're looking for the other kind of ATV, try this instead.

Questions? Comments?   Email me at barth [at] uci [dot] edu .


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