The SAO Telescope Data Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, supports

Locally Developed Software

The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Telescope Data Center creates and maintains software to process and archive data from optical telescopes at the Whipple Observatory and MMT Observatory on Mt. Hopkins in Arizona.
The software is freely distributed and documented online.

Observing	scat:	Searching Star Catalogs
Preparation	skymap:	Making Charts from Astronomical Catalogs (Making Images)
	widl:	Making Finding Charts from DSS Images
Data	svdfit:	Removing sky from spectra ( ApJ Letters paper)
Reduction	STELIRCam	[Data reduction] [Instrument]
	FAST	[Data reduction] [Instrument] [Reduced Data Archive]
	Hectospec	[Data reduction] [Instrument]
Data	rvsao:	Computing Redshifts in IRAF (papers)
Analysis	SAOimage:	Displaying Images (papers)
	WCSTools:	Using Sky Coordinates in Astronomical Images (papers)
		Image header manipulation utilities
Astronomical	DS9 the best astronomical image display program, written by Bill Joye at the CfA
Software	SExtractor Source extractor, for finding objects in astronomical images, written by Emmanuel Bertin at Terapix in France
Elsewhere	IRAF, the open source astronomical data analysis system, written at NOAO, the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, and elsewhere

Last updated 23 April 2007