QFitsView 01 - Installation and Basic Functionality

Опубликовано: 16 Март 2026
на канале: Swinburne Commons
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Describes the application installation and the basic functionality of QFitsView.

Table of Contents:
00:35​ - Installation and Startup
01:19​ - Loading FITS Files
02:09​ - Sections of The Screen
03:01​ - Image Magnification
03:38​ - Cursor Lock
03:53​ - Blinking Buffers
05:05​ - Grid Windows

QFitsView is an application for visualisation, analysis and manipulation of FITS files, including spectra, images and data cubes. This series of videos is produced by Mark Durré of the Centre of Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne; the videos were co-sponsored with the Max-Plank Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics at Garching with the application's creators, Thomas Ott and Alex Agudo. Please view the videos in the numerical order.
Links:
Application - https://www.mpe.mpg.de/~ott/dpuser/qf...
Installation - https://www.mpe.mpg.de/~ott/QFitsView...
DPUser - https://www.mpe.mpg.de/~ott/dpuser
Categories of functions and procedures - https://www.mpe.mpg.de/~ott/dpuser/ca...
Functions: detailed descriptions - https://www.mpe.mpg.de/~ott/dpuser/fu...
Procedures: detailed descriptions - https://www.mpe.mpg.de/~ott/dpuser/pr...
Mark Durré's DPUser Libraries - https://github.com/MarkDurre/DPUserFu...
Further Documentation - https://commons.swinburne.edu.au/hier...