Custom colormaps can be a useful tool to quickly draw attention to parts of an image.
This is a merged dataset for IGR J14003-6326, aka G310.6-1.6.
find_chandra_obsid 'IGR J14003-6326' download=all
reproject_obs "*/primary/*evt*" outroot=G310.6-1.6 bin=1
cd LUT
ds9 G310.6-1.6_merged_evt.fits -pan to 4096.5 4096.5 -bin factor 1 -scale log -smooth yes &
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import -window "SAOImage ds9" ds9_06_lut_01.png
display < ds9_06_lut_01.png
The ciao contrib
package contains a number of additional color maps ported from the
XImage
and ImageJ
software packages. For more information see the thread
http://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/ciao/threads/auxlut/
xpaset -p ds9 cmap load $ASCDS_INSTALL/contrib/data/vt2.lut
import -window "SAOImage ds9" ds9_06_lut_02.png
display < ds9_06_lut_02.png
xpaset -p ds9 quit
[1]+ Done ds9 G310.6-1.6_merged_evt.fits -pan to 4096.5 4096.5 -bin factor 1 -scale log -smooth yes