ESO-MIDAS

The ESO-MIDAS system provides general tools for image processing and data reduction with emphasis on astronomical applications including imaging and special reduction packages for ESO instrumentation at La Silla and the VLT at Paranal. In addition it contains applications packages for stellar and surface photometry, image sharpening and decomposition, statistics and various others.

The official name, ESO-MIDAS, is a registered trademark. ESO-MIDAS is available under the GNU General Public License (GPL), and can be implemented on OpenVMS and UNIX (Linux) systems. For more detailed information about ESO-MIDAS, please refer to the following services:

• An Overview of ESO-MIDAS
• Hard- and Software Requirements
• Releases and Distribution (including ftp retrieval)
• Documentation
• User Support and Information Services
• Mailing List Subscription

For your questions, comments, problems, etc, related to ESO-MIDAS, please use the ESO-MIDAS Problem Report Form, help for this here..

Also an iso image of a live CD of "Astro-Linux" is available for download on the ESO ftp server .

Astro-Linux is a Linux distribution with lots of astronomical software (including Midas). This software has been developed by Serge Montagnac who is responsible for this code. ESO provides space for faster downloads of the iso image, but does not support Astro-Linux in any way.

All questions about this code should go to Serge Montagnac directly; see also the homepage of Astro-Linux for more details.