SAOImage DS9 Version 3.0 Known Issues

MacOSX

MacOSX (darwin) requires the use of X11 for MacOSX 10.2 or 10.3. For more information on using SAOImage DS9 with IRAF under MacOSX, please see The Macintosh IRAF Web Page

Plot

There is a know bug with Plots and the Zoom function. Bring up an analysis plot. Click left button to start the zoom function. Without completing zoom (by clicking a button), go to FileClose.  Resulting error message will appear:  An internal error has been detected: invalid command line:".atmenu122g" menu and choose.

In certain cases when the data contains x errorbars, and there values are quite large, compared to the data itself, and if displayed with errorbar style 2, the rendering may become corrupted. In this case, only use style 1.

WCS

DS9 will display an incorrect WCS values and/or an invalid compass diagram for some projections that include the new PV distortion keywords. These include projections of type COD, COE, COO, COP and ZPN. We are aware of the problem and hope to have this corrected next release.

IRAF

DS9 now supports IRAF's new IIS image display protocol. However, there is one minor problem with the mscred task msczero. Before using msczero, issue the following command in the cl:

cl> set disable_wcs_maps=""
cl> flpr