on Friday, September 19, 2003 - 02:18 PM GMT - 1405 Reads
Seiichi Yoshida announced this week the availability of version 2 of his cross-plataform free Java software PIXY, an automated astronomical image examination system suited to astrometric and photometric purposes...
The PIXY System was used in the course of an object survey of the MISAO Project. It automatically detects all stars from an image, collates them with star data recorded in catalogs, and finds out new objects or variable stars. It also prints out all astrometric and photometric data of all detected stars, so it is also useful for astrometry of minor planets or photometry of variable stars.
Being implemented in Java, it runs both on a Windows PC and a UNIX workstation.
Homepage for further details and download links here.
