DPUSER is an interactive language that is capable of handling numbers (both real and complex), strings, and matrices. Its main aim is to do astronomical image analysis, for which it provides a comprehensive set of functions, but it can also be used for many other applications.
A new version (2.0) is released.
For DPUSER, extensive documentation is available, see link below. DPUSER is also part of a graphical front-end (-> QFitsView).
For Microsoft Windows, you need this binary (6 MB).
For Linux, you need this binary (3.5 MB). Don't forget to make this executable (chmod a+x dpuser_2.0.linux)!
For Mac OSX, copy this disk image and copy the Application to your favorite location (3.1 MB). This is a universial binary.
To use the plotting capabilities of DPUSER, copy grfont.dat and rgb.txt to some directory and create an environment variable named PGPLOT_DIR
that points to that directory.
DPUSER provides an interface to ds9 allowing to display images or overlay graphics. In order to use this functionality, the following software has to be downloaded from hea-www.harvard.edu:
PATH
so it can be found
automatically when ds9 is started.
You can also download the documentation in gzipped tar format and extract to your local disk.
If you want to compile DPUSER yourself,
download the source code (31 MB) and follow the instructions in the README file.