Specview is an interactive tool for display and analysis of astronomical 1-dimensional spectrogram data. It can combine together data from different instruments / files / wavelength regimes, read from a number of sources, including the Virtual Observatory.
Specview can fit physical models to this data, and perform operations such as coadd / splice / Fourier filter the data. Quick feature measurement, a line identification tool, and spectral template handling, are provided as well.
Specview recognizes a number of spectrogram formats. For a complete list, see Section 1.6.
Most on-screen controls can display a short "balloon
help" when the mouse cursor is positioned on top of them for a few
moments.
See in Section 8 how to use command
line options.
See in Section 9 how to set up user
preferences.
See in Section 7 an explanation
about physical units.
A remark about the print button in the help window:
Printing help pages used to be extremely slow due to a bug in the
Java 2D API print mechanism used by the Java Help facility. Also, if printing
help pages to PostScript files, the resulting file sizes used to be
enormous. This is probably better under later versions of Java, but could
still be present in some platforms. The bug is circumvented in Specview's
own internal print mechanism though, so getting hardcopies of the plot screen
shouldn't be a problem.
Bug:
using the “find” tool in the Specview help window (magnifying glass
button) causes error messages to be listed in the shell (command) window. This
is apparently harmless, and seems to be caused by a bug in the JavaHelp package.