Download
SAOImageDS9 is released once per year with beta versions available for download between major releases. Expand each section to see the version of the operating systems which are currently supported.
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Release Version 8.4.1
Dec 19, 2022
MacOS Notes
Aqua Installation: To avoid OS warnings about unknown developer or damaged applications, run the following command from the command line after installation:
% xattr -c /Applications/SAOImageDS9.app
XQuartz Users: It is recommended at this time that you install version 2.8.4 only
Windows
Source
Release Version 8.5b1
Feb 15, 2023
MacOS Notes
Aqua Installation: To avoid OS warnings about unknown developer or damaged applications, run the following command from the command line after installation:
% xattr -c /Applications/SAOImageDS9.app
XQuartz Users: It is recommended at this time that you install version 2.8.4 only
Windows
Source
XPA Version 2.1.20
Feb 15, 2023
Affiliated Packages
PyDS9
The pyds9 module uses a Python interface to XPA to communicate with DS9. This includes not only sending data and settings to DS9, but also retrieving them into Python.
DAX
DAX, the Ds9 Analysis eXtensions, is a collection of CIAO tasks that have been integrated using DS9's analysis menu interface. DAX provides users access to many mission independent CIAO tools and applications using a simplified graphical user interface.
With DAX users can perform various image processing operations (eg adaptive and non-linear smoothing), compute net counts and fluxes, perform source detection, and even modeling and fitting of spectra and 2D images using Sherpa.
PyDS9plugin
A python DS9 extension for quicklook processing of astronomical images. This highly interactive extension can be generalized automatically to a set of images to turn the plug-in into a realmulti-processing pipeline.