There were some minor changes that had to be made to the
Skycat-1.0 version released yesterday:

* The new "compass" in the pan window was pointing the wrong
direction for East (I needed to replace a '-' with a '+' :-)

* There was a request to display copyright information in the
catalog windows for some catalogs.

If you already copied the skycat-1.0 sources, there is a patch
file to upgrade them to skycat-1.0.1:

ftp://ftp.archive.eso.org/pub/skycat/skycat-1.0.1.patch

Here again is the announcement. Sorry for any inconvenience.

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Skycat version 1.0.1 is now available for anonymous ftp from:

ftp://ftp.archive.eso.org/pub/skycat/

The ftp directory contains the sources and the binaries for Sun and HP.

Skycat is a tool that combines visualization of images and access to
catalogs and archive data for astronomy. For more information about
Skycat, see: http://archive.eso.org/skycat/.

If you have any comments or suggestions, please send them to the
Skycat mailing list at:

skycat@eso.org

or directly to me (abrighto@eso.org).

Help! We are looking for volunteers for the following tasks:

* port Skycat to Linux

* write a Skycat user manual for end-users

Anyone interested in contributing should contact Miguel Albrecht
(malbrech@eso.org).

Here is a list of some of the recent changes. See the CHANGES file the
source release for a more detailed list.

* (Rtd) Fixed compass to display East correctly (was reversed...)

* (Skycat, Catlib) Added copyright field to catalog config file and
added item to the user interface to display the copyright info for
the current catalog or image server.

* (WCS lib) Major improvements in the World Coordinates handling. The
WCS information for HST images should be handled correctly now, so
you can plot guide stars, etc. This previously worked correctly only
for some images (such as those from DSS). Many thanks to Doug Mink
(dmink@cfa.harvard.edu) for supplying the WCS library and bug fixes.

* (Rtd) added a new "Grid" feature that displays a world coordinates
based grid over the image. You can also control the grid size
(distance in arcsecs between grid lines) in a new entry in the main
panel.

* (Rtd) The compass widget (N-E display in panel) was removed and
replaced with a more correct display in the Pan window. The Pan
window now displays 2 arrows indicating the real north and east for
the image, based on the world coordinate information.

* (Rtd) fixed bug in "measure band" display that caused incorrect
distances to be displayed for the width and height lines (the
diagonal was ok).

* (Rtd) Added bindings to measure band so that arrow keys can be used to
position it.

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Allan Brighton
abrighto@eso.org