ds9’s object field (problem with IRAF display?)
Jason Quinn wrote on Oct 09, 2008
I noticed that ds9 is no longer displaying the "OBJECT" keyword in the "Object" field when I display an image from within IRAF using the display task. (Now that I've noticed this, I think it's been MIA for quite some time.) The information is displayed if I load the image directly in ds9. I tried older versions of ds9 including version 4, which I know works correctly, and they did not display the information either. So I think the problem lies not with ds9 but IRAF. It appears that IRAF is not passing ds9 the information that it needs or at least not in the way that it expects. I'm using IRAF 2.14.1.
Jason
Jason
Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Oct 09, 2008
Hi Jason,
IRAF is still passing along the image name and title, same as it always has, but ds9 seems to find a way to break something with each new release. You'll have to take it up with SAO.
BTW, you can verify this for yourself by setting a "DEBUG_IIS" environment variable before you start DS9, this'll cause the iis packets to be printed to the screen, you're looking for the 'set wcs'.
Cheers,
-Mike
IRAF is still passing along the image name and title, same as it always has, but ds9 seems to find a way to break something with each new release. You'll have to take it up with SAO.
BTW, you can verify this for yourself by setting a "DEBUG_IIS" environment variable before you start DS9, this'll cause the iis packets to be printed to the screen, you're looking for the 'set wcs'.
Cheers,
-Mike
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