Release notes

Version 0.40 (01 Januari 2010)

  • Added full set of BVIT data reduction routines: bvitpreview, bvittofits, bvitphot and bvitview.
  • Improved slottools, adding slotpreview task and allow selection of rectangular background regions as an alternative to annulus.
  • Improved error handling/logging based on standard Python exception handling.
  • Added PyQt4 dependency in order to provide higher quality GUI tools. Currently used by bvitpreview, bvitview and slotpreview it is intended to fully replace Tkinter in future releases of PySALT.

Version 0.33 (06 March 2009)

  • Updated parameter files to point to appropriate files included with the pysalt package
  • Moved slotlog to saltred
  • Corrected error in saltcrclean associated with gain and rdnoise needing to be included
  • Corrected error in slotphot with printing the percentage extensions of interest or the background images which would have been subtracted.
  • Slotphot can handle the newfits file as an input file by setting the new ampperccd parameter. Help file was also updated with further instructions about this. Keywords were also updated in the newfits file to improve the handling of this process.
  • Order of files input remains consistent and the files are not sorted at any point in slotphot
  • Changed the number of significant figures written out by slotphot
  • Improved the method of background subtraction for slotphot
  • Improved the drift method in slotphot
  • Circular apertures display in slotview
  • Added task slotback which produces either the background subtracted fits file of only
  • Fixed two star display in slotview
  • Added slotutcfix to handle UTC timing issues

Version 0.32 (3 December 2008)

  • Improved the method of background subtraction for slotphot
  • Improved the drift method in slotphot
  • Added slotutcfix
  • Changed the number of significant figures written out by slotphot
  • Moved slotlog to saltred

Version 0.31 (24 July 2008)

  • Updated parameter files to point to appropriate files included with the pysalt package
  • Corrected error in saltcrclean associated with gain and rdnoise needing to be included
  • Corrected error in slotphot with printing the percentage
  • Added task slotback which produces either the background subtracted fits file of only extensions of interest or the background images which would have been subtracted.
  • Slotphot can handle the newfits file as an input file by setting the new ampperccd parameter. Help file was also updated with further instructions about this. Keywords were also updated in the newfits file to improve the handling of this process.
  • Order of files input remains consistent and the files are not sorted at any point.
  • Circular apertures display in slotview
  • Fixed two star display in slotview

Version 0.30

First major release of the PySALT package. This includes the following packages:

  • saltred
  • slottools

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