January, 2007
Welcome to the jFITS home page. A have endeavored to create a small Java™
Swing based application to allow users to view and perform simple transformation
of FITS formatted images. On my Remote Astronomy page you'll
see that I mention the Cadillac of FITS image processors, MaximDL. This program is
not meant to provide the functionality or compete with such a product, however, it
is meant to provide a way to view files on-the-fly as you are imaging, and to provide
non-Windows users a way to view these files easily.
In order to run the application from your computer, you need a Java™ JVM installed on your
computer. This should be release 1.5 or greater. You will then need to download the
application JAR file, located here. You can then launch the
application by issuing the following command from your system's command line:
java -jar jFITSWeb.jar
Alternative, you may run the application as an applet in your web
browser by clicking the link below. Because the applet needs local access
to your computer's file system you may need to grant permission for the
applet to run. In some cases, it may not be possible to run the application as
an applet and have it have access to your local resources -- in these cases
I recommend running the application as described in the previous paragraph.
Run jFITS now!
If you have a popup blocker installed on your computer you can also try the
following link to open the application in the current window:
Run jFITS in the current window
Source code for the application is available under open source license
at SourceForge, and I welcome any one interested in contrbuting to the development
of the project to visit the project pages on SourceForge. Click
here
to go to the jFITS SourceForge pages.
