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Montage As A Visualization Engine
At the AAS Jamuary meeting, I presented a poster on how the Montage Image Mosaic Toolkit (http://montage.ipac.caltech.edu) is increasingly being used as a visualization engine. The poster was designed by Angela Lerias (U.California, Riverside), who is interning with the Montage … Continue reading
Montage Helps Find Near-Earth Objects
One of the most interesting applications that I have found for Montage is by the Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) program. A paper by Vighh et al. (2015) described how LINEAR has made significant contributions to the discovery of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), thereby … Continue reading
Best Practices for Code Release: Experience With Montage
This is a presentation given at the Special Session on Tools and Tips for Better Software, held at the 227th AAS Meeting, Kissimmee, FL, Jan 5, 2016. It was one of six presentations given at the session, whose purpose is … Continue reading
Montage YouTube Channel Rolled Out!
We have released the Montage youTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFjmHCDrq4YIUly1r082TjA . We have posted four videos of image cubes created with Montage, and will be posting more in the coming months. Here is one example: This is a full-resolution mosaic of … Continue reading
Version 4.0 of the Montage Image Mosaic Engine Released: Data Cubes and more.
Version 4.0 is a major upgrade of Montage, released with a BSD 3-clause license. The distribution is available from Git Hub at https://github.com/Caltech-IPAC/Montage and from the Montage web page at http://montage.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/download.html. The release supports aggregation of of data stored as … Continue reading
Montage Supports the Kepler Follow-Up Observation Program.
The Kepler Community Follow-up Program, known also as the Kepler Follow-up Observation Program and KFOP, is a program instituted to conduct follow-up observations on Kepler Objects of Interest (KOI), or signals observed by the Kepler spacecraft that may indicate the … Continue reading
Montage Used To Study The Structure of the Star-forming Cluster RCW 38
E. Winston et al. (2011) report that they used Montage in their recent paper “The Structure of the Star-forming Cluster RCW 38.” This was a multiwavelength investigation that used Spitzer, Chandra and 2MASS data that probed the spatial distribution of … Continue reading
A Python Wrapper for the Montage Mosaic Engine
Montage is written in C for performance, but there are many Python programmers in astronomy who have asked if they can use Montage with Python. Yes, it turns out they can, through the good offices of Tom Robitaille at the … Continue reading
A Montage Word Cloud
I thought I would have a change of scenery this week and have a little fun. The other week, I posted a word cloud for my other blog, Astronomy Computing Today, so I went to the wordle web site and … Continue reading