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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
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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
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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
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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.