Fedora 16 Update: ast-6.0.1-1.fc16

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-16932
2011-12-10 18:50:06
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Name        : ast
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 6.0.1
Release     : 1.fc16
URL         : http://starlink.jach.hawaii.edu/starlink/AST
Summary     : A Library for Handling World Coordinate Systems in Astronomy
Description :
The AST library provides a comprehensive range of facilities for attaching
world coordinate systems to astronomical data, for retrieving and interpreting
that information and for generating graphical output based on it. It's main
selling points are:

* Ease of use.
* Facilities for generating plots of generalized non-linear, potentially
  discontinuous 2-D or 3-D coordinate systems, with detailed control of the
  appearance of the plot.
* Facilities for converting transparently between different coordinate
  systems, including a wide range of celestial, spectral and time coordinate
  systems.
* Facilities for searching a general collection of connected coordinate
  systems for a coordinate system with any given set of characteristics.
* Allows code for handling WCS information to be written in a general way
  without regard to the specific nature of the coordinate systems being
  handled (i.e. whether they represent sky positions, spectral positions,
  focal plane positions, pixel positions, etc).
* Flexible system for saving and retrieving WCS information, including (but
  not limited to) a range of different popular FITS descriptions.
* Written in C but has interfaces for C, Fortran, Java (via JNI), Perl, and
  UNIX shell.
* Extensive documentation.

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Update Information:

The AST library provides a comprehensive range of facilities for attaching
world coordinate systems to astronomical data, for retrieving and interpreting
that information and for generating graphical output based on it. It's main
selling points are:

* Ease of use.
* Facilities for generating plots of generalized non-linear, potentially
  discontinuous 2-D or 3-D coordinate systems, with detailed control of the
  appearance of the plot.
* Facilities for converting transparently between different coordinate
  systems, including a wide range of celestial, spectral and time coordinate
  systems.
* Facilities for searching a general collection of connected coordinate
  systems for a coordinate system with any given set of characteristics.
* Allows code for handling WCS information to be written in a general way
  without regard to the specific nature of the coordinate systems being
  handled (i.e. whether they represent sky positions, spectral positions,
  focal plane positions, pixel positions, etc).
* Flexible system for saving and retrieving WCS information, including (but
  not limited to) a range of different popular FITS descriptions.
* Written in C but has interfaces for C, Fortran, Java (via JNI), Perl, and
  UNIX shell.
* Extensive documentation.
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ChangeLog:

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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update ast' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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