FIPS — OpenGL based FITS image viewer

FIPS is a cross-platform FITS viewer with responsive user interface. Unlike other FITS viewers FIPS uses GPU hardware via OpenGL to provide usual functionality such as zooming, panning and level adjustments. OpenGL 2.1 and later is supported.

FIPS supports all 2D image formats (except for floating point formats on OpenGL 2.1). FITS image extension has basic limited support.

Build requirements

• Cmake

• Qt 5.6+

• C++11 compatible C++ compiler, e.g. gcc 4.8+ or clang 3.4+

• (Windows only) WiX Toolset

Installation

Installing from package manager

openSUSE Leap 15.1 (and later) and openSUSE Tumbleweed

zypper in fips

openSUSE (other versions)

zypper ar -f obs://science fips
zypper in fips

Fedora 30 (and later)

dnf install fips

EPEL: RHEL, CentOS, and others (8.2 and later)

Before installing the package, enable EPEL repository as recommended here.

dnf install fips

FlatPak

FlatPak is cross-distribution Linux desktop package manager with isolation.

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub space.fips.Fips
flatpak run space.fips.Fips

macOS

Download release package.

Windows

Download release package.

If you haven't found your distro above then you can build from sources or contribute building packages for your favourite distro. Let us know to insert missing instructions.

Building from sources

git clone https://github.com/matwey/fips3
mkdir -p fips3/build
cd fips3/build
cmake ..
make

For Windows (make sure you have cmake in your PATH, then run in PowerShell):

$Platform = 'x64' # or 'x86'
$QtDir = 'E:\Libs\Qt\5.14.1\msvc2017_64' # make sure the path and platform is right
$Generator = 'Visual Studio 16 2019'
$Architecture = 'x64' # or Win32
$Configuration = 'Release' # or Debug

$env:PLATFORM = $Platform
$env:QTDIR = $QtDir

$env:PATH = "$QtDir\bin;$env:PATH"
cmake -G"$Generator" -A $Architecture .
cmake --build . --config $Configuration --target PACKAGE

Community

• Report bugs on GitHub
• Join us on Telegram @fips_space

Citation

If you have benefited from using Fips in your research, please find an opportunity to cite paper Kornilov & Malanchev (2019):

@ARTICLE{FIPS,
   author = {Matwey {Kornilov} and Kosntantin {Malanchev}},
    title = "{Fips: An OpenGL based FITS viewer}",
  journal = {Astronomy and Computing},
archivePrefix = "arXiv",
   eprint = {1901.10189},
 primaryClass = "astro-ph.IM",
 keywords = {Techniques, Image processing, Image-based rendering, Graphical user interfaces},
     year = 2019,
    month = jan,
   volume = 26,
      eid = {61},
    pages = {61},
      doi = {10.1016/j.ascom.2019.01.001},
   adsurl = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019A%26C....26...61K}
}