FebruMac users should see the note on the left regarding patching the software. See Release of Montage Version 4.0 on the home page. Also, Montage is now on Twitter as SeptemVersion 4 Released. NovemWe have released our YouTube channel that has four videos of image cubes created with Montage, including the GALFA movie shown at the ADASS conference in Sydney in October. AugWe've posted a new tutorial for Montage novices called Getting Started: Creating Your First Mosaic. See Release of Montage Version 5.0 on the home page or the Download page. The poster describes how Montage transforms FITS files to the TOAST projection for consumption by the WorldWide Telescope. JanuCheck out our poster "TOASTing Your Images with the Montage Mosaic Engine" by Bruce Berriman that was presented at the Winter AAS meeting in Grapevine, Texas this month. See Release of Montage Version 6.0 (MontagePy) on the home page or go directly to the User Guide for Running Montage Under Python. We will be adding notebooks to the collection througout 2021. We are replacing this service with Python notebooks that will, when complete, replicate and extend the functions available in the on-line service. The on-demand image mosaic is being decommissioned because the hardware is aging. Key features for end users are: Accuracy: Preserves spatial and calibration fidelity of input images Portability: Runs on all common Linux/Unix platforms Scalability: Runs on desktops, clusters and computational grids Availability: Open source code and user documentation available for download Generality: Supports all World Coordinate System (WCS) projections and common coordinate systems Performance: Processes 40 million pixels in up to 32 minutes on 128 nodes on a Linux cluster Flexibility: Independent engines for analyzing the geometry of images on the sky re-projecting images rectifying background emission to a common level co-adding images Convenience: Tools for managing and manipulating large image files Montage is a toolkit for assembling Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) images into custom mosaics. We had let the site cruise along for several years, so it is possible the OS changes are affecting things in subtle ways please let us know if you detect anything that seems different. With the Montage software itself served via GitHub, hopefully that was kept to a minimum. Getting that VM set up and all the service software built took a little over a week, so we apologize to anyone who was impacted. 07 April 2022 Due to hardware failures, we had to rebuild the Montage site on a new VM.
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