Tool Bar

[Exit] button

This command shuts Makali`i down.

[Open] button

This command opens a new image. Select an image file in the "Open image file" Dialog and click the [Open] button. The selected image file is opened and will be displayed in a new window.

For details see: [Load and Save a image].

[Save] button

This command saves the active image by overwriting the old image file. Choose a file format in the dialog.

For details see: [Load and Save a image].

[Print] button

This command prints the active image.

For details see: [ Print ].

[FITS Header] button

You can view the contents of the FITS image header

For details see: [ FITS header ].

[Trim] button

This command trims the specified area of an image.

For details see: [Process Data] - [Cut].

[Brink] button

This command Displays multiple images alternately to makes the difference between them "blink". This command is useful to find a moving object or a nova.

For details see: [Process DATA] - [Blink].

[Photometry] button

This command add the count value of a specified radius in the image and subtracts the bachground light to determin the brightness of an object "aperture photometry". and average brightness and minimum brightness, maximum brightness of a specified rectangle in the image "rectangle photometry".

Please refer to [Processing]-[Aperture Photometry] and [Processing]-[Rectangle Photometry] for details.

[Astrometry] button

Finds the peak count value (such as a star) in the specified region.

For details see: [Processing]-[Astrometry...]

[Graph] button

This command shows a graph of the count value of a specified line segment.

For details see: Graph Tools.

[Contour] button

This command makes a new window with a contour (isophotes) image of the active image.

For details see: Contour...