April 1998 --- Number 14

The IRAF Newsletter is published by the Central Computer Services, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, P.O. Box 26732, Tucson, AZ 85726, Phone: (520) 318-8160, FAX: (520) 318-8360, Email iraf@noao.edu. Editors: Doug Tody, Jeannette Barnes

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Table of Contents

• IRAF Update
• IRAF Project Awarded NASA Grants
• The Online IRAF News
• IRAF Archive Mirror Sites

• IRAF V2.11 Supported Platforms
• PC-IRAF Project Status
• Combined Distributions for Sun/IRAF and for PC-IRAF

• STIS and NICMOS Calibration Pipelines
• PROS Report
• The NOAO Mosaic Data Handling System

• The SAO R&D Software Suite
• X11IRAF Project Developments
• Client Display Library--CDL
• IRAF FITS Image Kernel
• New IRAF Image Format
• IMFORT Changes in V2.11
• The IMEXTN and IMTYPE Environment Variables
• New Fonts for Hardcopy Graphics

• IMAGES Package Reorganized
• New Image Astrometry Tasks
• New Coordinate Transformation Tasks
• New Image Registration Tasks
• Pixel Masks in DISPLAY, FIXPIX, and CCDPROC
• Changes to the RFITS and WFITS Tasks
• Converting IRAF images with IMPORT/EXPORT
• DIGIPHOT Package Update
• Update on the NOAO Spectroscopy Packages
• Iterative Correction of Spectra: TELLURIC and SKYTWEAK
• IMTYPE and the IMRED Spectral Reductions Tasks

• Hints on Reading and Writing FITS Files
• The TAPECAP File Explained
• Measuring Coordinates with the FINDER Package
• The Mosaic Data Reduction Package--MSCRED
• Archiving Data with "Save The Bits"

• Layered Software Available for IRAF Versions 2.10 and 2.11

Posted: 07May1998