ESO-MIDAS The ESO-MIDAS (European Southern Observatory Munich Image Data Analysis System) system provides general tools for image processing and data reduction with emphasis on astronomical applications including imaging and special reduction packages for ESO instrumentation at La Silla. In addition it contains applications packages for stellar and surface photometry, image sharpening and decomposition, statistics and various others. In addition to the application programs the ESO-MIDAS system further contains: a powerful command language (MCL, MIDAS Control Language), that make it possible to create procedures; the program interface, i.e. a set of subroutines/functions which is used by the application programs to interface hardware, or data ESO-MIDAS is written by the MIDAS Group of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Garching bei Munchen, Germany. ESO-MIDAS is available on the special ESO-MIDAS CD-ROM and also included on the Linux for Astronomy CD-ROM

Current Version:   01FEBpl1.1 License Type:   Copyright under the GNU Public License (GPL)

Home Site: http://www.eso.org/esomidas/ Source Code Availability: Yes Available Binary Packages: Debian Package: No RedHat RPM Package: Yes, ftp://dsn.ast.univie.ac.at/pub/linux/REDHAT/astronomy/i386 Other Packages: Yes Targeted Platforms: PC/Linux (2.0.28 or higher), HP-UX 9000 (A.10.10), Sun/Solaris (2.5), Silicon Graphics (IRIX 5.3), Alpha/OSF1 (V4.0), IBM/RS6000 (AIX 4.1) Software/Hardware Requirements: ANSI C and Fortran 77 Compilers. For further information see http://www.eso.org/esomidas/midas-require.html for details.

Other Links: http://www.eso.org/esomidas/96nov_cdrom.html (the ESO-MIDAS CD-ROM Page) ftp://ftphost.hq.eso.org/midaspub/ (the ESO-MIDAS anonymous ftp archive) Mailing Lists/USENET News Groups: Two ESO-MIDAS mailing lists: midas-users for general discussion about ESO-MIDAS and un-moderated, and midas-announce for announcement of releases and patches of ESO-MIDAS. To subscribe yourself or others to this mailing list send a mail to majordomo@eso.org with the following command in the body of your email message: subscribe midas-announce [email address]. User Comments: Please note that the 'Linux for Astronomy' CD-ROM mentioned contains an older version of ESO-MIDAS. See A Screen Shot? (Not Yet)

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