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Originally posted on Astronomy Computing Today:
Those of you who have used Montage probably know it as a toolkit for processing images to create mosaics. It is, however, finding applicability in the visualization of images, as described in “The Application…

Most of you are familiar with how to create image mosaics with Montage. You can also use the mViewer module to create sky coverage maps. The image below, from Rodriguez et al. (2017) shows an example of this, created to … Continue reading →

  This is the title of a poster presented at the 2017 NSF Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI^2) Principal Investigator (PI) workshop in February 2017 (an earlier version was presented at the ADASS conference in Trieste, Italy in October … Continue reading →

Our poster at the 229th AAS meeting, Grapevine TX, Jan 4-8 2017 shows how to prepare your images for consumption by the World Wide Telescope.

McQuinn, Mitchell and Skillman (2015) recently published “The Panchromatic STARBurst IRregular Dwarf Survey (STARBIRDS): Observations and Data Archive.” They combined new and archival multi-wavelength observations for 20 nearby starburst and post-starburst dwarf galaxies to create a new archive of calibrated, homogeneously reduced images: … Continue reading →

t the AAS meeting in January, I gave a presentation at a Special Session on Software Licenses about how and why we relicensed Montage from a proprietary license to a more permissive BSD 3-clause.  You can see the short presentation … Continue reading →

I am delighted to say that we have received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to deliver the next generation of the Montage Image Mosaic Engine. This new effort responds to the dramatic evolution in the computational landscape astronomy in … Continue reading →

This question has been asked several times. It was first posed on-line by Loren Anderson on the Astrobetter page on image mosaics: “An important note on Montage is that it does not conserve flux when changing the image resolution. For … Continue reading →

Montage returns with each mosaic an “area file” in FITS format that contains the total amount of sky area (steradians) that contributed to the value of a pixel. It weights  the output flux by the “areas” of the contributing inputs. … Continue reading →

This week, I attended the “Innovations in Data Intensive Astronomy” Workshop, hosted by NRAO at Green Bank, West Virginia.  The workshop aimed to “.. encourage new ideas for the effective processing, analysis, and interpretation of Tera- to Peta-scale data sets … Continue reading →