atlas#
atlas is a Python GUI for viewing FITS images, in the spirit of SAOImage DS9.
It opens files into frames, shows them singly or tiled, and lets you read individual pixel counts straight off the image. Everything beyond the image itself is a tool you switch on, so a default launch stays a plain viewer rather than a wall of panels.
pip install -e .
atlas image.fits
Get atlas onto your machine, with or without the optional ZMQ support.
Open your first image and find your way around the window in five minutes.
Frames, single and tiled layouts, and the linear and log intensity scales.
The hover readout, the statistics panel, headers, and histograms.
Follow a detector in real time over shared memory or ZMQ.
Profiles, YAML files, and command-line overrides, in precedence order.
Where to go next#
If you have never run atlas before, start with Installation and then Quickstart. If you are setting it up for an instrument, the pages you want are Live streams and Configuration.