SALT - Southern African Large Telescope

Release Notes


Version 0.30:

First major release of the PySALT paackage.

This includes the following packages:
saltred
slottools

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