Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: ginga
Version: 1.4-20130410193624
Summary: An astronomical (FITS) image viewer and toolkit.
Home-page: http://ejeschke.github.com/ginga
Author: Eric Jeschke
Author-email: eric@naoj.org
License: BSD
Description: GINGA ABOUT
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        Ginga is a viewer for astronomical data FITS (Flexible Image Transport
        System) files.
        
        The Ginga viewer centers around a new FITS display widget which supports 
        zooming and panning, color and intensity mapping, a choice of several
        automatic cut levels algorithms and canvases for plotting scalable
        geometric forms.  In addition to this widget, the fits viewer provides a
        flexible plugin framework for extending the viewer with many different
        features.  A fairly complete set of "standard" plugins are provided
        for features that we expect from a modern viewer: panning and zooming
        windows, star catalog access, cuts, star pick/fwhm, thumbnails, etc.
        
        COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
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        Copyright (c) 2011-2013  Eric R. Jeschke.  All rights reserved.
        Ginga is distributed under an open-source BSD licence.  Please see the
        file LICENSE.txt in the top-level directory for details.
        
        BUILDING AND INSTALLATION
        -------------------------
        Ginga uses a standard distutils based install, e.g.
        
            $ python setup.py build
        
        or
        
            $ python setup.py install
        
        The program can then be run using the command "ginga"
        
        For further information please see the file ginga/doc/INSTALL.txt
        
        MANUAL
        ------
        You can find copies of a PDF manual online at
        https://github.com/ejeschke/ginga/downloads
        
        Also look in ginga/doc/manual
        
        DEVELOPERS
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        See scripts/example{1,2}_gtk.py and scripts/example{1,2}_qt.py .
        There is more information for developers in the manual.
        
        ON THE WEB
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        http://ejeschke.github.com/ginga
        
        ETYMOLOGY
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        "Ginga" is the romanized spelling of the Japanese word "銀河"
        (hiragana: ぎんが), meaning "galaxy" (in general) and, more familiarly,
        the Milky Way.  This viewer was written by software engineers at Subaru
        Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan--thus the
        connection. 
        
        Pronunciation
        -------------
        Ginga the viewer may be pronounced "ging-ga" (proper japanese) or
        "jing-ga" (perhaps easier for western tongues).  The latter
        pronunciation has meaning in the Brazilian dance/martial art capoeira:
        a fundamental rocking or back and forth swinging motion.
        
        
Keywords: FITS image viewer astronomy
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
Classifier: Operating System :: MacOS :: MacOS X
Classifier: Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows
Classifier: Operating System :: POSIX
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy
