GET_PIPE_FILESIZE - Determine the number of bytes in a unit opened
as a pipe with SPAWN
20-Nov-2010: TEXTOPEN,
FORPRINT - Now have a /WIDTH keyword to pass to OPENW
(and avoid possible problems with 80 character wraparound)
18-Nov-2010: MWRFITS - Fix problem with longword overflow, update to V6.0
notation
11-Nov-2010: MRDFITS() - Fixed problem with unsigned integers, update to V6.0
notation
28-Oct-2010: PLOTHIST - Added FTHICK keyword to control thickness of lines used
in POLYFILL
14-Oct-2010: DBSEARCH,
FITS_OPEN - Use compound operators, slightly faster
.............MAKE_ASTR - Default plate scale is now 1"/pixel (not 1 deg/pix)
13-Oct-2010: Database routines now support databases with entry lengths larger
than 32767 bytes. This requires some changes in the internal
database formating but these changes should be transparent to the
user. Modified routines are
DBCREATE,
DBEXT_DBF,
DBFIND(),
DB_INFO(),
DB_ITEM,
DB_ITEM_INFO(),
DBOPEN
.............DBWRT - Faster byte swapping
11-Oct-2010: AL_LEGEND - Now has BTHICK keyword to control legend box thickness
04-Oct-2010 COSMO_PARAM - Better error checking.
08-Sep-2010:READCOL - Now has /QUICK keyword for faster (but less flexible)
reading
.............KSTWO - Fix 32 bit overflow problem when computing N_eff for very
large integers
19-Aug-2010: CNTRD - Fix bug that would return NaN values rather than -1,-1
when centroiding failed
..............GCNTRD - Gaussian smooth image prior to finding maximum pixel
(unless /KEEPCENTER is set )
..............DB_ENT2HOST - Fix bug with multidimensional strings
18-Aug-2010: DBPRINT - Fix display of multidimensional data
............. AL_LEGEND - Duplicate of legend.pro that avoids name conflict with
new IDL 8.0 LEGEND() function.
17-Aug-2010: MRDFITS() - Fix bug with /EMPTYSTRING keyword and multidimensional
strings
DB_ENT2EXT - Fix bug with multidimensional strings
8-Aug-2010: READFITS() - Fix possible problem when startrow=0 supplied
3-Aug-2010: READFITS() - Faster access to FPACK decompression
MRD_STRUCT - Serious bug introduced 16-Jul fixed. Could have
caused MRDFITS() to fail if short integers present.
30-Jul-2010: GETPRO - Test for .sav file, more robust test for write privilege
24-Jul-2010: READCOL - Free memory used by internal pointers
.............DBBUILD - Fix for when first parameter is multi-valued
16-Jul-2010: LEGEND - Make a box with sharper edges
14-Jul-2010: WFPC2_READ - Fix header when only reading PC chip in MEF format
12-Jul-2010: QUERYGSC - fix case for dec between -1 and 0
11-Jul-2010: QUERYSIMBAD - Added /SILENT keyword
08-Jul-2010: FXPOSIT() - Prompt for file name if supplied as an empty string
(same effect for MRDFITS(), HEADFITS() )
02-Jul-2010: DBCIRCLE() - Fields RA_OBJ (degrees) now works correctly
24-Jun-2010: ROBUST_SIGMA() - Correctly handle data with NaN values
20-Jun-2010: FXREAD - Update BLANK keyword when applying BSCALE/BZERO
03-Jun-2010: READFITS() - Use short-circuit operators, correct treatment of
BLANK keyword, use dialog_pickfile when filename supplied as an
empty string.
24-May-2010: WCS_GETPOLE - Make
native pole calculaions consistently in radians
.............READFMT - Recognize 'G' format, use SKIP_LUN
.............DBBUILD - Avoid spurious warning message about # of elements
09-May-2010: FXBFIND - Fix potentially serious bug introduced April 2010
.............DBFIND_SORT - Fixed occasional out of bounds error
06-May-2010: WFPC2_READ - Can now read multi-extension FITS format
04-May-2010: MATCH - Added EPSILON keyword to get matches within tolerance.
09-Apr-2010: FXBREADM - Add support for columns with TNULLn keywords
07-Apr-2010: DBCREATE - Remove spurious warning that database name is too long
06-Apr-2010: FXBTORM,
FXBHELP,
FXBFIND,
FXBPARSE - Stop using obsolete !ERR
system variable (and maintain GDL compatibility)
06-Apr-2010: READCOL - Graceful return even if no valid lines present
05-Apr-2010: FXBCREATE -
Fixed rare truncation of FITS header when updating THEAP keyword
02-Apr-2010: FTAB_PRINT,
TBPRINT - Can now print in 'table' format (1 row per
line by setting the column parameter to '*'; also added a
NUM_HEADER_LINES keyword.
28-Mar-2010: FXBADDCOL - Do *not* force TTYPE* keyword to upper case
23-Mar-2010: Now have a /fanning directory containing procedures from David
Fanning's library ( http://www.dfanning.com/) used with Astron
procedures. Currently contains
..............SETDEFAULTVALUE - Set default value for positional & keyword
argument
...............SYMCAT() - a direct graphics symbol catalog
22-Mar-2010: CONVOLVE - Add /No_PAD keyword for better speed and less memory usage
when edge effects are not important
11-Mar-2010: QUERYVIZIER - Avoid error if output columns but not data returned
10-Mar-2010: MRDFITS() - Fix COLUMN keyword to work as advertised
06-Mar-2010: REMOVE - Can now remove elements from up to 25 vectors
25-Feb-2010: READCOL - Now recognizs LL, UL, and ULL data types
.............STRNUMBER() - Now has a /L64 keyword
18-Feb-2010: SXPAR() ,
.FXPAR() - Fix problem with extracting very large negative
integers.
.............QUERYGSC() - Handle updated server format which now also returns
infrared photometry
17-Feb-2010: READ_FMR() - Read a journal (ApJ, AJ) machine-readable table into IDL
09-Feb-2010: CO_REFRACT() - Allow more than 32767 elements
02-Feb-2010: REPSTR() - Test for empty input string (could cause infinite loop)
01-Jan-2010: VALID_NUM() -- Corrected bug that would treat '124.' as invalid
31-Dec-2009: SRCOR - Return as soon as no matches are found
17-Dec-2009: SRCOR - Fix RA search to account for cos(Dec)
............RESISTANT_MEAN - Now has DIMENSION keyword to take mean over 1
dimension, more consistent double precision
11-Dec-2009: DBCREATE - Warn if record length exceeds 32767 bytes
............FXBREAD - Fix use of DIMENSION keyword
29-Nov-2009: MWRFITS - Fix /USE_COLNUM for binary tables
.............. DBFIND_SORT - Fixed 01-Nov update to not use VALUE_LOCATE on single
value
25-Nov-2009: READCOL - Use pointers to improve speed and avoid bug with using
SCOPE_VARFETCH() in IDL 7.1 workbench.
..............MULTIPLOT - Reinitialize common block if M[X/Y]TITLE set
03-Nov-2009: LEGEND - PSYM values between 11 and 46 will now use the plotting
symbols defined in David Fanning's
SYMCAT() function
01-Nov-2009: DBINDEX,
DBFIND_SORT -- Now allow string items to be sorted
30-Oct-2009: READFITS() - Ignore degenerate trailing dimensions with NSLICE keyword
29-Oct-2009: CONVOLVE - Pad images prior to FFT to avoid edge effects
23-Oct-2009: GLACTC_PM - Convert between celestial and Galactic (or Supergalactic) proper motion
19-Oct-2009: FITS_READ - Make sure FIRST is long64 for very large files
30-Sep-2009: FXADDPAR - Now has /NOLOGICAL keyword to *not* interpret 'T' and
'F' as logical values
.............MWRFITS - Allow TTYPE values of 'T' and 'F'
16-Sep-2009: TAG_EXIST() - June 2009 update wasn't setting INDEX keyword
20-Aug-2009: READCOL - Now allows up to 40 output parameters
..............FTAB_EXT - Now allows up to 30 output parameters
14-Aug-2009: HPRECESS,
PRECESS_CD - Use J/Bprecess for conversion between
J2000 and B1950
11-Aug-2009: FITS_ADD_CHECKSUM - Make sure FITS header has 80 characters/line
10-Aug-2009: FDECOMP - Removed MacOS section (since it is same as Unix)
.............BLKSHIFT - MacoS *can* move beyond EOF with POINT_LUN
31-Jul-2009: MRDFITS - Added /EMPTRYSTRING keyword to bypass IDL memory bug
when reading empty strings
31-Jul-2009: DBFIND - Avoid possible "Illegal Operand" error
30-Jul-2009: MRD_STRUCT - restored 131 character limit for execute
22-Jul-2009: READFITS() - Fix error using NUMROW,STARTROW with non-byte data,
allow these keywords to be used with primary array
21-Jul-2009: SXPAR() - Faster handling of Long String convention
17-Jul-2009: WHERE_TAG() ,
CREATE_STRUCT() ,
TAG_EXIST() ,
SXDELPAR - cleaner and
slightly faster coding
...............Removed NUMLINES() which is superceded since V5.6 by FILE_LINES
16-Jul-2009: Removed N_STRUCT() (now in /obsolete) since it is rinky-dink
(and to recapture the namespace)
15-Jul-2009: TABINV - use ARRAY_EQUAL for speed, always internal double
precision
14-Jul-2009: FXPOSIT ,
MRDFITS() - More complete handling of FPACK compressed
files, including automatic detection of FPACK compression.
11-Jul-2009: KSONE - work for functions that do not accept keywords
03-Jul-2009: RDFITS_STRUCT - Added EXTEN keyword to only read specified
extensions
...............MRD_HREAD - Now has a /SKIPDATA to position at end of HDU
03-Jul-2009: Library now requires IDL V6.1 or later
IDL_VALIDNAME - removed because it is an intrinsic function since V6.0
............. RDFITS_STRUCT - Added EXTEN keyword to only read specified
extensions
............. DBSEARCH() - Faster search for large databases
............. ADSTRING() - Use new formatting for "+" and "-"
............. CHECKSUM32 - Use TOTAL(/INTEGER) for faster performance
............. DBBUILD - Eliminate use of EXECUTE() and use SCOPE_VARFETCH(),
accept up to 50 input variables
.
............. MRD_STRUCT - Assume lmgr() function available, remove 131 char
limit on an EXECUTE() string
02-Jul-2009: WCSSPH2XY - Check for valid range of nonlinear polynomial in
a ZPN projection.
01-Jul-2009: MRDFITS() - Fixed bug introduced March 2009 when using file unit
(the Unixpipe variable was undefined)
29-Jun-2009: MWRFITS - trim alias, implement logical TFORM 'L', don't add
space after TFORM key
28-Jun-2009: DBCREATE - Remove calls to IEEE_TO_HOST
23-Jun-2009: LINMIX_ERR - Fixed bug so the iteration count reset after the burnin
stage when /SILENT
17-Jun-2009: MRDFITS() - Fixed typo giving an error with /FSCALE
introduced April 2009
............. HOR2EQ - Fixed case of scalar Julian date but vector positions
............. CO_ABERRATION - Fix error with vector input
............. SRCOR - Fix case when no matches found with /SPHERICAL
9-Jun-2009: MODFITS -- allow input data to be an (MRDFITS) structure
27-May-2009: FXPOSIT(),
READFITS,
MRDFITS,
HEADFITS() - can now read FITS files
compressed with
FPACK
(which must be first installed).
15-May-2009: CREATE_STRUCT - Now puts "compile_opt hidden" in temporary .pro
file to suppress error messages
05-May-2009: CHECKSUM32 - Skip byteswapping for float or longword data
30-Apr-2009: DBCIRCLE() - Fix problem when RA range exceeds 24h
10-Apr-2009: MWRFITS - Small efficiency update when writing ASCII tables
03-Apr-2009: MRDFITS() - Small efficiency updates in MRD_SCALE
01-Apr-2009: PLOTERROR ,
OPLOTERROR - Fixed problem when axes are both
logarithmic and reversed
19-Mar-2009: TAG_EXIST() - Added a dummy /RECURSE keyword for compatibility
with the Solarsoft version
16-Mar-2009: FXPOSIT() - Now opens files with the /SWAP_IF_LITTLE_ENDIAN keyword
for byteswapping on the fly.
.............MRDFITS() - Use new FXPOSIT() for much faster byteswapping. **The
new MRDFITS() must be used with the new fxposit.pro **
13-Mar-2009: GCIRC - Now uses haversine formula for less roundoff error at the
milliarcsecond level
.............SRCOR - Now much faster when using spherical coordinates. Added
/SILENT keyword
09-Mar-2009: IMDBASE - Addded /SILENT keyword
24-Feb-2009: WEBGET() - Now has TIMEOUT keyword (defaulting to 30s)
21-Feb-2009: GETROT - Account for rotation introduced by nondefault value
of LONGPOLE
..............SKY - Avoid possible out of bounds if /NAN set
20-Feb-2009: EXTAST - Fix typo for AZP projection, nonzero longpole
If duplicate WCS keywords, then use the *last* values
...............DBOPEN - Fix typos in keywords passed to BYTEORDER
10-Feb-2009: FXBADDCOL,
FXBWRITM - Now work with unsigned integers
.............FXADDPAR - Increase formatting precision for double precision
RXTE Software in contrib/rxte directory updated to Version 1.2
06-Feb-2009: TEN(),
TENV() - Now accept string inputs
02-Feb-2009: READCOL - Now has SKIPSTART keyword to skip lines beginning with a
specified string
22-Jan-2009: ROBUST_POLY_FIT() - Added /DOUBLE keyword, removed obsolete call
to POLYFITW
..............HELIO - Work for more than 32767 positions
21-Jan-2009: PLOTHIST - Now has a /ROTATE keyword to switch X and Y axis
(put the plot on its side).
18-Jan-2009: WEBGET(),
QUERYVIZIER() - Added /SILENT keyword
13-Jan-2009: ASTROLIB - Removed !DEBUG definition (no longer used)
12-Jan-2009: SCREEN_SELECT, SELECT_O, SCR_*.PRO moved to /obsolete directory
(i.e. widgets are now assumed to be always available).
09-Jan-2009: MWRFITS - Now has output STATUS keyword to indicate success/failure
.............JPLEPHINTERP - Now allows base time TBASE to be scalar or vector
22-Dec-2008: KSTWO - Fix bug when maximum difference occurs at the end of the
array
19-Dec-2008: DBCIRCLE() - Added /GALACTIC input keyword and COUNT output keyword
12-Dec-2008: GAL_UVW - Now 10 times faster for large arrays
26-Nov-2008: JPLEPHINTERP - More input checking, SSB and EMB aliases for
solar system and earth-moon barycenter
25-Nov-2008: QUERYSIMBAD - Remove CADC keyword, add CFA keyword, update address
of Sesame server
11-Nov-2008 FIND - Now has /MONITOR keyword to control whether to display each
individual star
.............READCO L - Now has NLINES output keyword
29-Sep-2008: EULER - Now has /RADIAN keyword
06-Sep-2008 FITS_WRITE - Delete BSCALE/BZERO before writing file
..............PLOTHIST - Check whether all values are NaN
28-Aug-2008: IMCONTOUR - Work when RA crosses 0 hours
............ TICLABELS - Use 0h labeling instead of 24h
19-Aug-2008: ADSTRING() - Fix roundoff error when -1 < dec < 0 , add PRECISION
keyword
15-Aug-2008: READCOL - COUNT output keyword added giving number of valid lines
.............EXTAST - Now use the *last* values if duplicate astrometry
keywords are present in the FITS header
08-Aug-2008: MRDFITS() - Added OUTALIAS keyword, use vector form of VALID_NUM()
07-Aug-2008: VALID_NUM() - Major rewrite to use STREGEX, accept vector input
.............SXPAR() - Use vectorized form of VALID_NUM
05-Aug-2008 QUERYVIZIER() - Use STRCOMRPESS2 for more robust searches using
Constraint string
04-Aug-2008: STRCOMPRESS2() - Remove blanks around specified chars in a string
01-Aug-2008: DBCREATE - Fix bug introduced May 2008 when not in ZDBASE dir
.............DBGET() - Fix possible bug when sublist supplied
30-Jul-2008: MODFITS - Now has EXTNAME input keyword
.............JDCNV - Now checks for valid day, month ranges
.............CT2LST - Change sign of time zone parameter to match standard
Positive East of Greenwich (ahead of GMT).
.............QUERYVIZIER() - Allow for possible lower-case returned formats
19-Jul-2008: OBSERVATORY - Fix error message for unknown observatory
.............MODFITS - Fix bug when adding CHECKSUM changed header size
.............FITS_ADD_CHECKSUM - Don't update DATASUM if not already present
and no data array supplied.
.............RXTE Software in contrib/rxte directory updated to Version 1.1
27-Jun-2008: EULER - Use less virtual memory for large arrays
24-Jun-2008: MRDFITS() - More informative error message when EOF encountered.
18-Jun-2008: GAL_UVW - Fix overflow for >32767 elements and update Sun velocity
12-Jun-2008: FITS_ADD_CHECKSUM - Fix error when CHECKSUM is an empty string
07-Jun-2008: QUERYVIZIER - Now recognize 'D' format specification
13-May-2008: FITS_ADD_CHECKSUM - Fix problem with images with multiples of
2880 bytes.
10-May-2008: READFITS() - Now always reset BSCALE/BZERO after applying even for
unsigned integers
03-Apr-2008: HEXTRACT - Added ALT keyword to specify alternate astrometry
.............UPDATE_DISTORT - Update SIP nonlinear transformation astrometry
coefficient for a linear transformation
27-Mar-2008: SIZE_STRUCT() - Moved to /obsolete directory becuase it is
superceded by LENGTH and DATA_LENGTH keywords to N_TAGS
21-Mar-2008: FIND - Now computes centroids using marginal Gaussian fits
.............GCNTRD - Modified centroid algorithm to match IRAF/DAOFIND &
allow shifts of more than 1 pixel from initial guess.
19-Mar=2008: FXBREADM,
FXBWRITM - Read/write 64 bit integer columns
18-Mar-2008: FITS_INFO,
FXBOPEN,
FXBPARSE,
FXFINDEND,
FXBFINDLUN - Update
integers to LONG64 to deal with very large files.
.............HREBIN,
HCONGRID - Don't update BSCALE/BZERO for unsigned integer
13-Mar-2008: APER - Allow output of negative fluxes (if /FLUX is set)
10-Mar-2008: READFITS() - Avoid 32bit overflow when using NSLICE keyword
03-Mar-2008: QUERYVIZIER - Update Strasbourg Web address to work correctly
01-Mar-2008: DBCREATE - No longer requires user to be on a ZDBASE directory
..............FIND - /SILENT now suppresses *all* output
18-Feb-2008: WRITEFITS - EXTEND keyword is no longer required in the primary
header of a FITS file with extensions as in proposed new
FITS guideline
14-Feb-2008: RESISTANT_MEAN - Use double precision internally
.............IMCONTOUR - Make use of the OVERLAY keyword always optional
29-Jan-2008: SKY - Avoid possible out of bounds if /NaN set.
17-Jan-2008: CONS_RA() - Ensure that returned declination is between -90 and 90
..............IMCONTOUR - Added OVERLAY keyword to ensure accuracy ot 1 pixels
when overlaying an image. Use FORMAT_AXIS_VALUES()
.............New /contrib/rxte directory contains "IDL Extractor" programs
to extract light curves, spectra and power spectra from RXTE data
(and also Swift and Chandra data).
14-Jan-2008: FXWRITE - Now has /APPEND keyword to append to existing FITS files
.............FXHMAKE - Now has /XTENSION keyword to specify header is for an
image extension.
..............FXBWRITM - Now allows output table to have TSCAL/TZERO keyword
values, unless new /NOSCALE keyword is set
..............FXBREADM - Now recognizes unsigned integer scalings, and scalings
can be either float or double precision.
08-Jan-2008: ADD_DISTORT -- Add a SIP distortion astrometry structure into a
FITS header
..............HREBIN,
HCONGRID - will now update SIP distortion coefficients
when expanding or compressing an image
..............MMM - make sure that program never aborts but returns gracefully
24-Dec-2007 TRANSFORM_COEFF - Compute new polynomial coefficients under a
linear transformation
19-Dec-2007: FITS_INFO - Now has out keyword EXTNAME to return extension names
..............QUERYGSC() - Updated Webserver name (sigh)
13-Dec-2007: MODFITS - Ensure that supplied header contains 80 byte lines
11-Dec-2007: WEBGET(),
QUERYVIZIER(),
CREATE_STRUCT() - Use vector form of IDL_VALIDNAME
if IDL V6.4 or later
4-Dec-2007: FXMOVE() - Fix data size calculation for very large files
FXPOSIT() - Added LUNIT keyword for user-supplied unit number
2-Dec-2007; QUERYGSC() - major rewrite to use new STScI server & GSC 2.3.2
.............QUERYUSNO() (to query USNO-A2 catalog) has been removed since the
newer USNO-B1 catalog can be queried with QUERYIVIZIER, e.g.
IDL> info = queryvizier('usno-b1','m13',5)
25-Nov-2007: Minimum IDL version is now IDL V5.6
Updated procedures include RDFLOAT, BLKSHIFT, MEDARR, DBDELETE,
FTAB_DELROW, GETPRO, WEBGET, READCOL, READFMT, READFITS, MRDFITS
..............PRODUCT() - removed since intrinsic PRODUCT() is in V5.6
..............PLOTHIST - Added AXISCOLOR keyword, fix color problem when
overplotting
20-Nov-2007: ABSCAL() - Moved to /obsolete directory
14-Nov-2007: FXFINDEND,
FXMOVE,
FXBOPEN,
FXREAD,
FXWRITE,
FXHMODIFY - Now
account for possibility 64bit integers needed for # of bytes.
13-Nov-2007: CORREL_IMAGES - Always REBIN() using floating pt. arithmetic
27-Oct-2007: WCSXY2SPH ,
WCSSPH2XY - Now supports the HEALPIX projection
12-Oct-2007: WRITEFITS - By default, update CHECKSUM keywords if already present
26-Sep-2007: FIND - Fix error message when no local maxima found
13-Sep-2007: HOR2EQ - Avoid integer overflow for more than 32767 points
31-Aug-2007: MODFITS - Fix problem when data size must be extended
..............MULTIPLOT - Added /SQUARE keyword, overall (x)(y)title keyword.
Can now control gaps between plots and overall tick format.
22-Aug-2007: MRDFITS() - Fix problem when both /FSCALE and /UNSIGNED set
8-Aug-2007: READFITS() - Fix bug introduced Mar 2006 in applying Bzero
6-Aug-2007: MATCH2 - New procedure to find every matching element in 2 arrays
3-Aug-2007: LEGEND - 13-Jul update introduced a bug for /NORMAL coords
.............FXADDPAR - Bug fix for long string convention
.............OBSERVATORY - Added info for Mount Graham observatory
.............WCSSPH2XY ,
WCSXY2SPH - Correct treatment of PVi_j parameters
13-Jul-2007: WEBGET() - Partially upgrade to support HTTP 1.1
.............LEGEND - Don't modify position keyword
.............DATE_CONV() - Add Julian date capabilities
06-Jul-2007: HPRECESS - Fix for case where CROTA2 is in the FITS header
.............PUTAST - Allow PC matrix to updated when CD matrix is supplied
02-Jul-2007: QUERYSIMBAD - Update for parsing new /NED format
24-Jun-2007: WEBGET() - Now has a POST keyword for POST rather than GET queries
22-Jun-2007: FITS_READ - Added /PDU keyword to always inherit primary header
even if INHERIT=T is not present (pre-April 2007 behavior)
.............MRDFITS() - Fix for variable length arrays when used with the
virtual machine.
29-May-2007: LINMIX_ERR,
MLINMIX_ERR - Improved Bayesian prior for more reliable
results
25-May-2007: CHECK_FITS - Work again for a null array
17-May-2007: New procedures supplied by Brandon Kelly (Steward U.)
........LINMIX_ERR : Bayesian approach to linear regression with errors in both X
and Y
........MLINMIX_ERR : Bayesian approach to multiple linear regression with errors in
both X and Y
........MRANDOMN : Generate random vectors from a multivariate normal density.
........MULTINOM : Genereate random vectors from a multinomial distribution.
........RANDOMCHI : Generate random numbers from a chi-square density.
........RANDOMDIR : Generate random vectors from a Dirichlet density.
........RANDOMGAM : Generate random numbers from a gamma distribution.
........RANDOMWISH : Generate random matrices from a Wishart density.
15-May-2007:
FITS_READ,
READFITS(),
WRITEFITS - Set data variable to LONG64
for handling very large files
08-May-2007: MEDARR - Added /DOUBLE keyword to force double precision
07-May-2007: PSF_GAUSSIAN() - Do not modify NPIXEL input keyword
24-Apr-2007: REM_DUP() - Use faster algorithm when flag parameter not given
............ FORPRINT - Fix error message when variable is undefined
23-Apr-2007: FXADDPAR - Now has an ERRMSG output keyword to capture error
messages.
14-Apr-2007: FITS_OPEN - Warn user that compressed files cannot be updated
13-Apr-2007: WEBGET - Friendlier error recovery
12-Apr-2007: FITS_READ - Don't inherit the primary header unless INHERIT = T
9-Apr-2007: GCIRC - Use internal double precision for U=0 mode as advertised
6-Apr-2007: MRDFITS - Convert ASCII table array output to DOUBLE if needed to
preserve precision
28-Mar-2007: HEXTRACT - Work for dimensions larger than 32767
21-Mar-2007: TBINFO - Now has a /NOSCALE keyword to skip TSCAL, TZERO
.............TBPRINT,
TBGET() - Avoid pointer leaks due to TBINFO call
..............TBDELCOL - Use /NOSCALE in call to TBINFO
13-Mar-2007: MODFITS - Update the file control block (FCB) structure if the
file size changes
09-Mar-2007: AD2XY,
XY2AD - Use CRVAL ref. point for non-WCS transformations
08-Mar-2007: DBDELETE - Fix problem when deleting final entry
.............FXMOVE - Use a case-independent search for EXTNAME
06-Mar-2007: QUERYSIMBAD - Update NED query to account for new IPAC format
05-Mar-2007: SKY - Fix problem for very large (>5000 x 5000) images
02-Mar-2007: MWRFITS - fix problem where strings were being right-justified
instead of being written exactly as supplied.
21-Feb-2007: TVELLIPSE - Added /MAJOR, /MINOR keywords to add major, minor axes
16-Feb-2007: FTAB_PRINT - Check for empty extension
15-Feb-2007: LIST_WITH_PATH - Restore pre-Sep 2006 behavior of not searching
subdirectories
12-Feb-2007: PCA - fix bug in computation of attribute projections
9-Feb-2007: DBMATCH - Fixed bug where /FULLSTRING was always being set
8-Feb-2007: CREATE_STRUCT - Added a descriptor type 'K' for LONG64 data
7-Feb-2007: REMCHAR - Work for string arrays with more than 32767 elements
6-Feb-2007: QUERYSIMBAD - Now use the more reliable Simbad Sesame name server,
added /VERBOSE,/CADC keywords
20-Jan-2007: TEXTOPEN - Make sure output keyword MORE_SET is always defined
...............EXTAST - Now includes .NAXIS tag in output astrometry structure
............... PUTAST - New /NAXIS keyword to write .NAXIS values to FITS header
09-Jan-2007: DBPRINT,
DBEXT_DBF - Remove use of EXECUTE() statements
03-Jan-2007: READCOL - Now has /PRESERVE_NULL keyword. This was formerly set
as the default
28-Dec-2006: DBEXT,
WFPC2_READ,
FTAB_EXT - Avoid EXECUTE() for V6.1 or later
26-Dec-2006: DBINDEX- Automatically enlarge index (.dbx) file if necessary
Fix serious bug introduced 18-Dec
19-Dec-2006: CONVOLVE() - Avoid unnecessary recomputation for double complex
.............TVCIRCLE - Make default integers LONG so largest postscript circles
display properly.
18-Dec-2006: DBSORT,
DBINDEX - Avoid use of EXECUTE() for V6.1 or later
16-Dec-2006: MRDFITS(),
HEADFITS() - Can now specify FITS extension by name (in
the EXTNAME keyword)
...............FXMOVE(),
FXPOSIT() - Added EXT_NO, ERRMSG keywords
13-Dec-2006: MRD_SKIP - Restored check to avoid POINT_LUN with compressed files
8-Dec-2006: WEBGET - Added case for reading FITS images from FIRST survey
1-Dec-2006: EXTGRP - Restored to Library (needed by WFPC2_READ)
24-Nov-2006:FITEXY - normalize input data before processing
22-Nov-2006: CHECK_FITS - Fix dimension error introduced 14-Nov
20-Nov-2006: RDPLOT - Major upgrade, added BACKGROUND, /ACCUMULATE keywords
fixed full cursor display for different setups
15-Nov-2006: EXTAST - Use GSSS astrometry if WCNAME = "DSS" (as in
recent DSS images from the STScI server)
14-Nov-2006: CHECK_FITS - Removed support for STSDAS headers
2-Nov-2006: APER - All additional keywords to be passed to MEANCLIP
1-Nov-2006: ONE_RAY,
ONE_ARROW -
Now accept /DATA and /NORMAL keywords
25-Oct-2006: FITS_READ - Fix bug when using /DATA_ONLY keyword
20-Oct-2006: QUERYVIZIER - Set target='NONE' for an all-sky search, accept
'+/-' constraints
17-Oct-2006: TBINFO - treat Logical type as character 'T' or 'F'
13-Oct-2006:GCIRC - Option (U=2) to supply input longitude, latitude in Degrees
3-Oct-2006: TVELLIPSE - Now uses _EXTRA to pass optional keywords to PLOTS
2-Oct-2006: MRD_SKIP - now uses POINT_LUN for compressed files since it is as
fast as any other method
............ READFITS() - Now calls MRD_SKIP to select fastest possible method
of skipping bytes
26-Sep-2006: FITS_OPEN,
FITS_READ,
FITS_WRITE,
MODFITS - now use
/SWAP_IF_LITTLE_ENDIAN keyword to OPEN
25-Sep-2006: Library now requires V5.5 or later. VMS support has been removed
from most procedures
The following "stale" procedures have been removed from the Library
They can still be obtained from
http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftp/obsolete/
afhread - Used for mostly obsolete WFPC1 data
astrmfix = Used for mostly obsolete FOC data
conv_stsdas - Mainly for converting between VAX and unix
conv_vax_unix() - Vaxes rarely used
conv_unix_vax - Vaxes rarely used
datatype() - JHUAPL routine
dbcompress - TRUNCATE_ON_CLOSE makes it unnecessary
def_dirlist -- Mainly for VMS
extgrp - mainly for old WFPC1/FOC data
getfiles -- Use dialog_pickfile instead
getlog.pro -- mainly for VMS
imgread -- for mostly obsolete WFPC1/FOC data
mid_*.pro -- Midas I/O routines, no evidence that they are used
osfcnvrt.pro -- mainly for VMS
strd - only worked for small set of (mostly obsolete) GEIS files
stsub, stsubim - only worked for small set of (mostly obsolete)
GEIS files
spline_smooth -- Never worked properly
redshift -- 1970's cosmology, from JHUAPL library
sxhedit -- just use a regular editor
table_conv.pro - mainly for vax/unix conversion
wfpcread -- WFPC1 data rarely used
12-Sep-2006: FITS_OPEN - Support very large files by using 64 bit variables
9-Sep-2006: DBDELETE -Use TRUNCATE_LUN (if V5.6 or later) to compress the .dbf
file after deleting entries. DBCOMPRESS moved to
obsolete directory.
1-Sep-2006: READCOL ,
STRNUMBER() now have a /NAN keyword to specify that
empty strings should be interpreted as NAN values
30-Aug-2006: STRNUMBER() - An empty string is a valid number (=0.0)
25-Aug-2006: HASTROM - Account for half-pixel shift when using nearest neighbor
23-Aug-2006: FORPRINT - Warn if supplied vectors are not all the same size
11-Aug-2006: TBPRINT - Fixed check for multiple values
08-Aug-2006: MWRFITS - Allow logical columns to be specified as bytes
04-Aug-2006: PLOTHIST - fix possible color problem introduced May 2006
26-Jul-2006: TBINFO - Added ERRMSG keyword, Treat repeat count for strings as
specifying string length, not number of elements
25-Jul-2006: FITS_OPEN - FCB.Filename now expands any wildcards
21-Jul-2006: DBFPARSE - Don't convert DATE/TIME to numeric for string items
14-Jul-2006: DBCREATE - New MAXENTRY keyword to override hardcoded #maxentries
12-Jul-2006: QUERYVIZIER - Removed V6.0 notation to restore V5.4 compatibility
06-Jul-2006: MWRFITS - Make 29-Jun-2006 fix work for pre V6.0 versions
29-Jun-2006: MWRFITS - Fix problem introduced May 2006 with multi-dimensional
strings
.............MRDFITS - Better error catching for gzip files, fix handling
of unsigned integers when BSCALE not present
27-Jun-2006: PLOTHIST - Now supports logarithmic axes (/XLOG, /YLOG)
26-Jun-2006: DBCREATE - Fix problem introduced May 2006 when default integer
types were change to LONG
23-Jun-2006: MWRFITS - Use /SWAP_IF_LITTLE_ENDIAN keyword to OPEN for
improved speed.
8-Jun-2006: TBPRINT - Use case-insensitive match of column names with TTYPES
7-Jun-2006: FITS_OPEN - Call XDISPSTR if /HPRINT is set on a GUI terminal
............HPRINT - Call XDISPSTR if /HPRINT is set on a GUI terminal
5-Jun-2006: XDISPSTR - Widget display of text with a simple search capability
2-Jun-2006: GETPRO - Now uses FILE_WHICH() function for improved speed
............FINDPRO - Use FILE_SEARCH insteasd of FINDFILE for V5.5 or later
26-May-2006: PLOTHIST - Add /BOXPLOT keyword, use exact XRANGE as default
16-May-2006: FDECOMP - Include final delimiter in directory name under
Windows, as advertised
............QUERYVIZIER() - New /ALLCOLUMNS keyword to return all catalog
columns. Also, QUERYVIZIER() **now returns an
anonymous rather than a named structure**
1-May-2006: DBCREATE - Make sure to use lowercase file names on Unix
............ HROT - Work with a 1 element floating point angle
28-Apr-2006: MRDFITS(),
TBGET() - Use faster byteswapping keywords to BYTEORDER
25-Apr-2006: DBEDIT - Now use DIALOG_MESSAGE for error messages
24-Apr-2006: AITOFF_GRID,
ARCBAR,
HISTOGAUSS,
SUNSYMBOL(),
TICLABELS -
Now have a FONT keyword to specify font (-1, 0 or 1)
............HOST_TO_IEEE,
IEEE_TO_HOST - use new keywords to BYTEORDER
for improved performance
21-Apr-2006: FITS_WRITE - Fix problem when number of bytes exceeds 32 bit word
.............N_BYTES() - Now returns a long64 integer
.............QUERYVIZIER() - Recognize 'E' format (same as 'F'format)
14-Apr-2006: Library now requires V5.4 or later, v53 directory contains
frozen version
............. GET_DATE- Removed LOCAL_DIFF keyword
............. FSTRING() - moved to obsolete directory
............. ADSTRING(),
TO_HEX(),
FTPUT - removed call to FSTRING()
.............BOXAVE() - allow 64bit integers
............. GETTOK(),
MATCH,
FM_UNRED - use COMPLEMENT keyword to WHERE
............. HPRINT,
FTDELCOL - Use BREAK instead of GOTO
13-Apr-2006: DATE_CONV() - removed RETALL from error messages
............. MMM - Now has NaN keyword to check for not-a-number values
05-Apr-2006: HPRECESS - Fix algorithm when CROTA2 in FITS header
............. XYAD - Include equinox when displaying coordinates
03-Apr-2006: DATE_CONV() - Don't include space in output FITS date
01-Apr-2006: FITS_READ,
READFITS() - Do not modify BSCALE/BZERO in FITS header
if reading unsigned integers
31-Mar-2006: MODFITS - Make sure last line of input FITS header is END
............. DBPRINT - Fix display on GUI terminals
27-Mar-2006: POLY_SMOOTH() - Add /EDGE_TRUNCATE to CONVOL call
22-Mar-2006: QUERYVIZIER - 22 Feb update was not properly returning the first
object found.
17-Mar-2006: FXHMODIFY - Fixed problem when needing to extend size of primary
header with a call to BLKSHIFT
14-Mar-2006: DBEDIT - Added /BYTENUM keyword to treat bytes as numbers rather
than characters
1-Mar-2006: SIXTY() - Added /TrailSign keyword to always place minus sign
on first element, rather than first nonzero element.
28-Feb-2006: CONVOLVE() - Match output precision type to that of input
24-Feb-2006: NUMLINES() -- Handle Unix files with spaces prior to IDL V5.6
23-Feb-2006: FXBADDCOL,
FXBTFORM -- Added support for 64 bit integers
.............MWRFITS - Removed warning about 64bit integers now that they are
standard FITS (as of December 2005)
22-Feb-2006: QUERYVIZIER - Updated for a change in the VIZIER output
6-Feb-2006: FXPOSIT - Remove leading spaces in filename when FINDFILE used
20-Jan-2006: RESISTANT_MEAN - Fix calculation of SIGMA_MEAN
.............MMM - Fixed error introduced June 2004 removing outliers when
READNOISE not set
29-Dec-2005: WCSSPH2XY,
WCSXY2SPH - Fixed AIRY projection when centered at
90 degree latitude
21-Dec-2005: CO_REFRACT() - Fix problem with vector input when /TO_OBSERVED set
15-Dec-2005: JPLEPHINTERP - Fix highest order term in velocity computation
05-Dec-2005: TEN(),
TENV() - Now recognize -0.0 as a negative value
23-Nov-2005: APER - Added MEANBACK keyword to use sigma-clipped mean instead
of calling mmm.pro
.............MMM - Added /SILENT keyword to suppress error messages
17-Nov-2005: TBPRINT - Better display formatting (space between columns)
16-Nov-2005: MEANCLIP - Added /DOUBLE keyword
09-Nov-2005: PRINT_STRUCT - Avoid overflow when displaying more than 10000
elements
27-Oct-2005: SXADDPAR - Work again with empty string input
.............MMM - Fewer aborts for strange sky histograms
15-Sep-2005: LEGEND - Added FONT keyword [-1,0 or 1} to pass to XYOUTS commands.
09-Sep-2005: TBHELP - Fixed bug introduced 31-Aug-2005 to not display TFORM
02-Sep-2005: TVBOX - Don't round coordinates when /DATA is set
31-Aug-2005: FTAB_HELP - Now defaults to display all extensions
.............TBHELP,
FTHELP - Slightly more compact display formats
26-Aug-2005: QUERYVIZIER - Make dis (3rd parameter) optional (as advertised)
17-Aug-2005: HEULER - Use double precision to compute new North Pole
21-Jul-2005: FITS_INFO - Now work for FITS files with SIMPLE=F
18-Jul-2005: WCSSPH2XY - Return unprojectable points as NaN values
............PLOTHIST - Added /AUTOBIN keyword to set the number of bins to
the square root of the number of samples
05-Jul-2005: READCOL - added "compile_opt idl2" ensure pre-V6.1 compatibility
22-Jun-2005: MRD_STRUCT - Fix problem when both NO_EXECUTE and STRUCTYPE set
.............QUERYVIZIER - Eliminate use of EXECUTE() statement
.............READCOL - Eliminate use of EXECUTE() for V6.1 or later; accept
null strings separated by delimiter ,e.g. ',,,'
18-May-2005: SXADDPAR - Fix SAVECOMMENT error with non-string values
17-May-2005: PUTAST - Don't use CROTA2 keyword if skew is present in the input
astrometry
.............GETROT - Added ALT keyword
12-May-2005: HREBIN,
HCONGRID - Fixed problem in output astrometry if CROTA2 or
PC matrix used. Added ALT keyword.
05-May-2005: ADXY - Still work if no WCS coordinates are present
02-May-2005: FXBWRITM - Remove call to EXECUTE() when using POINTERS keyword
25-Apr-2005: KSONE - Allow passing keywords to func_name via _EXTRA facility
20-Apr-2005: TICPOS - Fix cases where tic increment is at degree/minute or
minute/arcsec boundary
19-Apr-2005: IMDBASE - Now accepts ALT keyword for alternate astrometry
11-Apr-2005: FXBGROW - Fixed bug in the zeroing of the output file
06-Apr-2005: JPLEPHINTERP - Handle custom-built ephemerides
30-Mar-2005: PARTVELVEC - Now has a VecColors keyword to set arrow colors
08-Mar-2005: FXREAD - Can now be used to read image extensions
25-Feb-2005: READFITS() - Fix problem with unsigned integers introduced Sep 2004
............ HASTROM - Check for distortion parameters in headers, add more
FITS HISTORY records
24-Feb-2005: MINMAX() - Work again for versions prior to V5.5
07-Feb-2005: MRDFITS() - Fix problem when /USE_COLNUM is set
03-Feb-2005: MRDFITS() - Fix problem with string variable binary tables,
possible math overflow on non-IEEE machines
01-Feb-2005: FITS_HELP - Don't truncate displayed EXTNAME values at 10 chars
31-Jan-2005: BLKSHIFT - Call TRUNCATE_LUN when shifting data forward from the
end of the file.
20-Jan-2005: MOONPOS,
NUTATE - Avoid possible integer overflow
12-Jan-2005: MRDFITS() - Fixed problem reading zero width arrays in binary
tables on non-IEEE (e.g. Linux) machines
10-Jan-2005: MINMAX() - Added SUBSCRIPT_MIN and SUBSCRIPT_MAX output keywords
03-Jan-2005: MWRFITS - Fix writing of empty strings to a binary table
31-Dec-2004: MODFITS - More robust error reporting
16-Dec-2004: MRDFITS() - Propragate /SILENT to MRD_HREAD, more LONG64 casting
.............APER - Fixed bug introduced 11/04 when there are no bad pixels
15-Dec-2004: RDFITS_STRUCT - Don't copy primary header into extension headers
14-Dec-2004: FITS_INFO- Check entire header for EXTNAME keyword
.............SXPAR() - Make sure ABORT parameter always defined
10-Dec-2004: CHECKSUM32 - Sep. 2004 update introduced byte-ordering error for
Linux boxes
24-Nov-2004: HROTATE - If GSSS astrometry is present, then convert to standard
world coordinate system (WCS) astrometry
22-Nov-2004: WRITEFITS - Fixed problem when CHECKSUM set, and a heap array given
02-Nov-2004: APER - Now has /NAN keyword to signal a check for NaN pixels
29-Oct-2004: MMM - Improved numerical precision
25-Oct-2004: MRDFITS() - Check if extra degenerate NAXISi keywords are present
19-Oct-2004: WRITEFITS - Added ability to write to heap area
CURVAL - Now has "ALT" keyword to select alternate astrometry
18-Oct-2004: HPRINT - Fixed 1 line offset on terminal that don't support /MORE
15-Oct-2004: XYAD,
XY2AD,
AD2XY - Now work for FITS headers with WCS keywords
(CRPIX, CRVAL, CDELT) but no astronomical projection.
12-Oct-2004: RDFITS_STRUCT - Now has a /HEADER_ONLY keyword to read all the
headers (and no data) in a FITS file
11-Oct-2004: HPRINT,
FORPRINT - Do a simple PRINT if IDL in demo mode
01-Oct-2004: UNZOOM_XY,
ZOOM_XY,
TVLIST,
CURVAL - Now compatible with versions
in the MOUSSE library (http://archive.stsci.edu/uit/analysis.html)
30-Sep-2004: SXADDHIST - Now has LOCATION keyword to specify location in
FITS header to place HISTORY records
.............ADXY - Now has ALT keyword to specify alternate astrometry
27-Sep-2004: FITS_OPEN,
FITSDIR,
FXPOSIT,
READFITS() - Now treat .FTZ
extension as gzip compressed
23-Sep-2004: FXWRITE,
FXHMAKE - Now recognize unsigned integer datatypes
22-Sep-2004: GETROT - Fix problem checking if latitude is first coordinate.
10-Sep-2004: FIND - Now work for >32767 stars
08-Sep-2004: CHECKSUM32 - Fixed problem when array supplied to a little
endian machine whose number of bytes is not a multiple of four
..............FITS_TEST_CHECKSUM - Slight improvement in speed
CREATE_STRUCT - Use RESOLVE_ROUTINE to make sure obsolete version
of structure definition procedure is not used
24-Aug-2004: EXTAST - Recognize obsolete North Celestial Pole (NCP) projection
and convert to generalized SIN.
20-Aug-2004: FXREAD,
READFITS() - Fix possible problem with one-element vector
filenames in V5.5 or earlier
05-Aug-2004: TICLABELS - Fixed possible roundoff error when TYPE keyword is
greater than 1.
02-Aug-2004: IMCONTOUR,
TICS - Corrected integer offset problem, evident only
when dealing with very small images.
30-Jul-2004: KUIPERONE,
KUIPERTWO - Compute the one-sided and two-sided Kuiper
statistic, respectively. The Kuiper test is a generalization
of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) test useful for data on a circle
or photon arrival times.
29-Jul-2004: QUERYVIZIER() - Now has a CONSTRAINT keyword to add non-positional
constraints to catalog queries.
27-Jul-2004: FXBREADM,
FXBWRITM - Removed pre-V5.0 HANDLE calls
26-Jul-2004: MMM - Added /INTEGER keyword to distinguish between continuous
data, and data with discrete integer values
21-Jul-2004: MRD_STRUCT - Restore maximum string length of 131 (sigh...),
added NO_EXECUTE keyword
16-Jul-2004: MWRFITS - Fixed problem when writing structures with tags that
include pointers.
1-Jul-2004: SKY - Fixed possible subscripting problem introduced 22-Jun-2004
Added /NAN, /CIRCLERAD keywords.
30-Jun-2004: FXREAD
Now works with gzip compressed files
22-Jun-2004: SKY,
MMM -- Updated to better match more recent versions of DAOPHOT
Added HIGHBAD, READNOISE keywords.
15-Jun-2004: GCNTRD - Find the centroid of a star using Gaussian fits to the
marginal X and Y distributions. Allows the user to specify
bad pixels to be ignored in the fits.
11-Jun-2004: CNTRD - New
EXTENDBOX= and /KeepCenter keywords to help keep
approximate center pixel from wandering.
09-Jun-2004: ADSTRING() - Fix possible problem in leading zero display
24-May-2004: LEGEND - Now has /OUTLINE_COLOR keyword to specify color of box
bounding the legend
21-May-2004: MWRFITS - Fix when writing an IDL pointer to a variable length
binary table.
14-May-2004: FXPOSIT - Don't leave an open file if an error encountered.
06-May-2004: MAKE_ASTR,
EXTAST,
WCSXY2SPH -
Fixed typos, errors introduced 4-May 2004
WCSXY2SPH,
XYAD,
WCS_ROTATE - Handle NaN values, flag invalid
output for AITOFF projection
04-May-2004: WCSXY2SPH,
WCSSPH2XY - Now support all WCS projections in the
FITS standard including ZPN and SZP. Now uses PV2 vector
keyword to replace scalar PROJP1, PROJP2 keywords.
.............EXTAST,
PUTAST,
XY2AD,
AD2XY,
MAKE_ASTR - Now support PV2 vector
instead of scalar PROJP1 and PROJP2 keywords. **Calling sequence
may be incompatible with earlier versions** due to change in
the astrometry structure
27-Apr-2004: Updates to image display procedures in contrib/bhill to avoid
occasional problems with invalid text windows and generating
postscript files
26-Apr-2004: FDECOMP - Make sure VERSION defined for Windows
19-Apr-2004: XYXY - Now checks whether headers have different coordinate
systems (e.g. Galactic, Ecliptic, or Celestial).
08-Apr-2004: EXTAST - Further fix if no comment present and values longer than
20 characters.
18-Mar-2004: NUMLINES() - Always return a scalar even if a 1-element array
is input.
17-Mar-2004: GET_EQUINOX() - Now check RADECSYS keyword if EQUINOX keyword
not found
08-Mar-2004: COMPARE_STRUCT() - Now has /NaN keyword to avoid comparing tags
which contain NaN values
05-Mar-2004: FXPOSIT(),
READFITS() -Can now transparently read bzip2 compressed
files under Linux. Note that FXPOSIT is called by HEADFITS()
and MRDFITS().
04-Mar-2004: MRDFITS() - Restored ability lost in 19-Feb-2004 mod to handle
out-of-order TTYPE keywords.
03-Mar-2004: GETTOK() - Now has /EXACT keyword to skip trimming of blanks
and replacing tabs with spaces
..............QUERYVIZIER() - Fixed occasional problem when output information
of different sources had different formats
02-Mar-2004: MRDFITS() - Restore ability since 19-Feb-2004 mod to handle
empty binary table
..............WHERE_NEGZERO() removed from Library. Still available in /obsolete
or in http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/solarsoft/gen/idl/util/
27-Feb-2004: MEDARR - Use MEDIAN(/EVEN) when Mask not set for V5.6 or later
...............WCSXY2SPH - Again accept matrix input for tangent projection
26-Feb-2004: QUERYVIZIER() - Output structure name is now taken from catalog
name returned from VIZIER, not that input by the user (to
avoid conflict in case of multiple catalog searches)
24-Feb-2004: Default version of IDL Astro Library now requires V5.3 (including
STRSPLIT() function and /Compress keyword to OPEN). Updated
procedures include BREAK_PATH(), DB_ITEM, DBPRINT, FDECOMP,
FIND_ALL_DIR, FIND_WITH_DEF, FITSDIR, FITS_HELP, FITS_OPEN,
FTAB_EXT, FTPRINT, FXPOSIT, GETTOK(), JPLEPHREAD, READCOL,
READFITS, RDFLOAT, TBPRINT, WRITEFITS, DEF_DIRLIST, DELVARX,
CREATE_STRUCT, EXTAST, FITS_INFO
New /v52 directory contains frozen version of library supporting
IDL V5.2 and later.
20-Feb-2004: ADXY,
GETROT,
CURVAL,
HEULER - Update if 'RA' and "Dec" are
reversed in CTYPE* keyword
19-Feb-2004: XYAD - Fix display if 'RA' and 'DEC' are reversed in CTYPE* keyword
EXTAST - Fix LONGPOLE computation if 'RA' and 'DEC are reversed
in CTYPE* keyword
MRDFITS() - V2.9 now has new internal MRD_FXPAR procedure for
faster processing of binary table headers
18-Feb-2004: MODFITS - Fixed problem when updated header exactly filled 2880
byte block boundary.
12-Feb-2004: ADSTRING() - Fix zero declination value display sign with
vector processing
10-Feb-2004: FIND_ALL_DIR - Resolve enviroment variables under Windows
05-Feb-2004: Astrometry routines now allow for proposed representation of
distortion in FITS world coordinate systems (Paper IV in
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/mcalabre/WCS/index.html).
Currently only implemented for the Spitzer Imaging Polynomial (SIP)
............ EXTAST - Return optional .DISTORTION substructure
............ XY2AD,
AD2XY - now account for SIP distortion if present
............ XYAD - Now has optional PRECISION keyword to adjust precision
if coordinates displayed at terminal
............ WCSSPH2XY,
WCSXY2SPH - Update AIR (Airy) and AZP (Zenithal
perspective) algorithms to match Calabretta & Greisen (2002)
............ WCS_GETPOLE - Fix code when theta0 is neither 0 or 90.
19-Jan-2004: SXADDPAR - If no END statement present, then add one
............ WCSSPH2XY,
WCSXY2SPH -Keep scalars as scalar, fix PARabolic
transformation
13-Jan-2004: AVG() - Fixed coding bug if all values are NaN
09-Jan-2004: ARROWS - Restore NotVertex keyword which had stopped working after
June 2003 change.
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