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@wwtelescope wwtelescope released this 15 Jan 00:06
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pypa:pywwt 0.15.0 (2022-01-14)

This release adds support for viewing arbitrarily-sized FITS files in pywwt,
with automatic tiling provided by the Toasty library!

  • Extend the existing FITS viewing support to automatically tile FITS images if
    needed, using either Toasty or CDS' hipsgen depending on the angular size of
    the image (#316, @imbasimba). While the Python interfaces don't look any
    different, there is now a lot more machinery under the hood so that pywwt can
    perform well whether your FITS file is a megabyte or a gigabyte in size.
  • Use the new WWT Kernel Data Relay (KDR) for serving up kernel-side data
    in Jupyter (#316, @pkgw, @imbasimba). You will now need to install the Python
    package wwt_kernel_data_relay as a Jupyter Server extension for FITS viewing
    to work in pywwt. This extension is necessary for pywwt to be able to send
    FITS data to the WWT web app on-demand, as you navigate an image. The KDR
    extension should be useful for other similar visualization tools as well.
  • Lots of other under-the-hood work to get asynchronous tiling and data service
    working smoothly.
  • Automatically use better default names and data cuts when viewing FITS files
    (#323, @imbasimba).
  • Substantially clean up and (hopefully) improve the documentation (#318, #324,
    @pkgw). This includes a new documentation theme based on the Astropy docs.