National Radio
Astronomy Observatory

1.6.6.7 Displaying Images

To display an image use the viewer task. The viewer will display images in raster, contour, or vector form. Blinking and movies are available for spectral-line image cubes. To start the viewer, type:

Executing the viewer task will bring up two windows: a viewer screen showing the data or image, and a file catalog list. Click on an image or ms from the file catalog list, choose the proper display, and the image should pop up on the screen. Clicking on the wrench tool (second from left on upper left) will obtain the data display options. Most functions are self-documenting.

The viewer can be run outside of casapy by typing casaviewer.

See § 7 for more on viewing images.

More information about CASA may be found at the CASA web page

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