See Release of Montage Version 6.0 (MontagePy) on the home page or go directly to the User Guide for Running Montage Under Python. We will be adding notebooks to the collection througout 2021. We are replacing this service with Python notebooks that will, when complete, replicate and extend the functions available in the on-line service. The on-demand image mosaic is being decommissioned because the hardware is aging. Key features for end users are: Accuracy: Preserves spatial and calibration fidelity of input images Portability: Runs on all common Linux/Unix platforms Scalability: Runs on desktops, clusters and computational grids Availability: Open source code and user documentation available for download Generality: Supports all World Coordinate System (WCS) projections and common coordinate systems Performance: Processes 40 million pixels in up to 32 minutes on 128 nodes on a Linux cluster Flexibility: Independent engines for analyzing the geometry of images on the sky re-projecting images rectifying background emission to a common level co-adding images Convenience: Tools for managing and manipulating large image files Montage is a toolkit for assembling Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) images into custom mosaics. We had let the site cruise along for several years, so it is possible the OS changes are affecting things in subtle ways please let us know if you detect anything that seems different. With the Montage software itself served via GitHub, hopefully that was kept to a minimum. Getting that VM set up and all the service software built took a little over a week, so we apologize to anyone who was impacted.

07 April 2022 Due to hardware failures, we had to rebuild the Montage site on a new VM.

Mac photo mosaic