CIAO 2.1 brings major advances in stability and opens up the system to users of Alpha's Tru-64 OS . User configuration has been simplified. The tool dmextract now makes radial profiles , including background subtraction. The FITS output can be modelled with Sherpa. There is a new CIAO tool, destreak , that was adopted from the existing destreak script.
Users can now easily modify existing badpixel files with dmmakereg .
The Ahelp system has been improved, adding the 'ahelp -w' functionality for all CIAO tool help files. Future CIAO CIAO continues to be enhanced. CIAO Preview gives a summary of our plans for the next releases. Longer term development including some major increases in the power of CIAO are in the works. We want to respond to your needs.